Geography 4220A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Geomedia, Geoweb, Post-Structuralism

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 4220A/B
• Professor: Michael Buzzelli

Document Summary

Recap: spatial concepts, geoweb, neogeography, citizen sensor science, ethics and privacy: critical gis the leading edge of geography, qualitative methods and p-gis, geomedia. Critical gis is concerned with the ways in which gis applications affect people and how gis may be used to address social problems. A merger of technical expertise with growing interest (mainly within the gis community to date) is social. Up until 10 years ago, everything in gis was quantitative. First spark for critical gi : pickles et al. (cid:894)1994(cid:895) (cid:858)grou(cid:374)d truth(cid:859) Typical kinds of applications: gis applied to social theoretical problems (as noted above) Integration of nonquantifiable properties (cid:894)(cid:374)e(cid:449) o(cid:374)tologies(cid:895): (cid:862)i(cid:374)deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)ate or (cid:448)ague features of geospatial i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d relatio(cid:374)s(cid:863) (cid:894) chuur(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:895: new kinds of communities and users, representation. In relation to the election: (academic snobbery) just because someone thinks something that you disagree with, we deem it ok to discredit it, based on the stance that they are not as educated as oneself.