Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0898622948 ISBN 13: 9780898622942

Casa editrice: Guilford Press, 1995

Riassunto

This text addresses the impact GIS is having in our social organization and the ways in which GIS is transforming how we think about the discipline of geography. examining the new technologies for gathering, analyzing and mapping geographic data, the author addresses issues about the use of GIS in research, technology, power, democratization and the changing visions of what constitutes market, territory and Empire.

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L'autore:

John Pickles, an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, is also member of the Committee on Social Theory at the University of Kentucky. His teaching and writing focus on such topics as social theory, disciplinary history, regional political economy, and the geography of transition and restructuring in South Africa and Eastern Europe.

Contenuti:

J. Pickles, Representations in an Electronic Age: Geography, GIS and Democracy.  M.F. Goodchild, GIS and Geographic Research. P.J. Taylor, R.J. Johnston, GIS and Geography.  M.R. Curry, Geographic Information Systems and the Inevitability of Ethical Inconsistency.  H. Veregin, Computer Innovation and Adoption in Geography: A Critique of Conventional Technological Models.  P.H. McHaffe, Manufacturing Metaphors: Public Cartography, the Market and Democracy.  J. Goss, Marketing the New Marketing: The Strategic Discourse of Geodemographic Information Systems.  S.M. Roberts, R. H. Schein, Earth Shattering: Global Imagery and GIS.  T.M. Harris, et al, Pursuing Social Goals Through Participatory GIS? Redressing South Africa's Historical Political Ecology.  J. Pickles, Conclusion: Towards an Economy of Electronic Representation and the Virtual Sign.

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• Editore: Guilford Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0898622948
• ISBN 13: 9780898622942
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Redattore: Pickles John