Showing posts with label geographer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geographer. Show all posts

November 22, 2012

is there a space in cyberspace for geography ?

Searching and searching for everything and anything we still haven't found and if already found then searching how to reconstruct and reinvent. Like the new urban image the WIFI-scape or Urban terrain as the Norvegian YOUrban group calls it.
That's who we want to be - the Inventors.

LightPainting WIFI from YOUrban group (http://yourban.no/)
And so we need more 'space' for Inventions, and so we expand it! Expanding spaces, realities, cognition.. 
Does this expansion affect us as individuals, as society? Does it also expands our research raising new questions, opening new fields or even forming new sub-sciences or indeed it just let us create new terms and subjects to manipulate about the the same things like spaces?
Such questions grew up after reading an article about the Geography and Cyberspace by M. Graham. Indeed an interesting and easy to go article well presenting the background or the 'hi-/-story' of a cyberspace. What the most interests me is the relation of cyberspace with geography. As it's clear geographers don't seem interested in this topic (no big research done) at all, but as the author tries to prove they should be, because the cyberspace as itself is a sort of space and therefore it should also be reviewed from geographical perspective.
At that point it seems for me that the article is written in as much serious as with a slight ironic mood

June 08, 2011

qoute: time to be a geographer!

Not since the days of Columbus has it been a better time to be a geographer. To state it simply, geography is popular, dare say, even hip. More than 51.3 million people have used web mapping services in the US alone (as of 2005) (Wired, 2005); over 200 million people have downloaded Google Earth (Google Press Center, 2007); over one million maps have been created with Microsoft collections (Helft, 2007); over 40 000 maps have been created with the website Platial (Helft, 2007);...
Sean P Gorman
School of Public Policy, George Mason University.

From the comment on response of the other comment in Environment and Planing journal.
Is academia missing the boat for the GeoWeb revolution?