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Google Earth: Outreach and Activism
Catherine Summerhayes
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In order to be able to communicate and engage with each other via new communicative spaces such as Google Earth, we need to understand as much as possible about how they work as cultural texts: how and why we make them and how we respond to them. Launched in 2005, Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program, mapping the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery and aerial photography. By addressing the sociopolitical issues at stake in society's use of social websites, the author provides the first ever extended ... Read more
In order to be able to communicate and engage with each other via new communicative spaces such as Google Earth, we need to understand as much as possible about how they work as cultural texts: how and why we make them and how we respond to them. Launched in 2005, Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program, mapping the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery and aerial photography. By addressing the sociopolitical issues at stake in society's use of social websites, the author provides the first ever extended ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781501320026
SKU
V9781501320026
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Ref
99-1
About Catherine Summerhayes
Catherine Summerhayes is Adjunct Fellow in the School of Literature Languages and Linguistics, at the Australian National University, Australia. Her major research areas are in documentary film studies, new media theory and performance studies.
Reviews for Google Earth: Outreach and Activism
How are we to think through 21st century visual regimes that have come to supplement perspective and realism? Summerhayes goes beyond analyses of the new cartographies as tools of authority, exploring instead the new affective connections afforded by Google Earth, new ways of being human. Vital reading for those who work to make data social.
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