Rethinking the geographies of cultural ‘objects’ through digital technologies

Rose, Gillian

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“…Indeed, this resonates with (and, dare I say, extends) Cultural geographies are always and already 'sociotechnical' and geographies of popular culture are only ever more so. Thus I agree with Rose (2015) that we must attend to the 'interfaces' through which cultural production is performed, but likewise agree with Barnett (2015) that these are not peculiar to 'digital' cultural production.…”

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“…One might argue-with Rose (2015)-that the first twenty-something years of 'new' cultural geography are founded on readings: reading various landscapes and other spatial formations as texts -as the Duncan's and others asked of us in the late 1980s (for example: Cosgrove and Daniels 1988;Duncan and Duncan 1988). This, of course, speaks to a particular understanding of the medium and the expression of culture: a deliberative cogitation on particular constellations of meaning (of more-or-less stable 'objects').…”

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Vulgar geographies? Popular cultural geographies and technology

Kinsley

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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In concluding Maps of Meaning Peter Jackson offers a provocation that continues to resonate in contemporary debates around cultural geography, such as affect and emotion, identity and difference or the human and non-human:If cultural geography is to be revitalised, ... 'It can only be by an engagement with the contemporary intellectual terrain -not to counter a threat, but to discover an opportunity' (Jackson 1989: 180; Stedman Jones 1983: 24).To explore what opportunities contemporary cultural phenomena may present for geographers, this short article poses two related questions: the first question is where is 'popular culture' in cultural geography? Following from this, and by way of arguing that contemporary popular culture is always mediated, the second question is how do we address the technologies of (popular) culture in our geographies?The first part of this provocation, then, is: should cultural geography be more vulgar? The choice of words is deliberately provocative, but can be phrased differently as: how might we better accommodate 'popular culture' in our cultural geographies? My intention here is not to imply a derisory quality, I recognise the implication of 'disgust' and 'distaste' in the word 'vulgar', but that might be a perceived connotation of the continued and conspicuous paucity of geographical engagement with 'popular culture'. Thus, on the contrary, in this article I want to challenge such implications. I argue 'vuglar' is therefore a useful (if challenging) means of addressing the place of the 'popular' in cultural geographies. I also recognise that others have alluded to the absence of 'popular' cultural geographies (see : Barnett 2008;Jackson 1989;) and yet, here we are still with a relative paucity of work in geography on 'low', 'mainstream', 'popular', or 'vernacular' cultural geography.

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Vulgar geographies? Popular cultural geographies and technology

Kinsley

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…The powerful potential of diagrams and spatial order is that they can impose provide and develop a deeper understanding to what is being studied in a spatial context, a development similar to the development of the Periodic Table and its impact on chemistry and wider material sciences (Scerri, 2007). Some recent related comparative work explores these intersections, especially how different kinds of charts, diagrams, technical images, and visual practices are played out in different disciplines (Elkins, 2007;Lynch and Woolgar, 1990;Rose, 2015).…”

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What Is Where? The Role of Map Representations and Mapping Practices in Advancing Scholarship

Brunn

Dodge

2017

Mapping Across Academia

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The emergence of the mapping impulse "More mapping of more domains by more nations will probably occur in the next decade than has occurred at any time since Alexander von Humboldt 'rediscovered' the earth in the eighteenth century, and more terra incognita will be charted than ever before in history" -Stephen S. Hall, Mapping the Next Millennium (1992: 22) "How many maps, in the descriptive or geographical sense, might be needed to deal exhaustively with a given space, to code and decode all its meanings and content?" -Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space (1991: 85) We can state with a fair degree of certainly that map making in some form is as old as human history. That is, when we look at the world population 10,000 years ago the earliest human clans already had someone making or preparing maps in some way. Hunter gathers at that time probably numbered about ten million people who lived in forests, grasslands, and intermediate environments in multiple locations of small numbers on all continents. A major source of their wellbeing was concerned about basic survival questions, such as the sources of food, water, building materials for homes, places of safety and the locations of friends and adversaries. Place was a primary concern about livelihood. This "spatial" survival information was in the heads of these earliest tropical and subtropical people (Ingold, 2000). It was not only information that was known, but also had to be conveyed to others in some way. Verbal communication was one way these earliest peoples could and did reveal information about "what was where." However, another way also became important in communication was by devising representations or ways of visually demarcating the location of something. In pre-literate and written language cultures some members of a clan or tribal group began to think of creative and imaginative ways to show "what was where." Here we are not talking about maps as we know them today, but other schematic ways to represent and portray vital geographical information for the community.The earliest mapmakers would, could and did use various ways to depict the location of food sources, good drinking water and place settings that were safe from wild animals or neighboring groups competing for the same territories. They were also concerned about the navigable pathways and the best routes from point A to point B. Boundaries or territorial limits of livelihood spaces were also something always in the minds of the earliest human settlements as well. The earliest proto-"maps" were most likely crude representations of "what was where," made by drawing lines in the sand or mud or using branches of a tree with different sizes and spacings of twigs to show place features. Leafs and flowers and plant stems, all with geometric features, could be used as "maps" as well as they could and did convey information about "what was where" that could supplement orally conveyed knowledge. The arrangement of stones, with stratified by different

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“…While in recent discussions the notions of "digital (communication) technologies" (e.g. Adams, 2017;Rose, 2016b) and "digital media" (e.g. Longhurst, 2016a) are used, ICT is an older term that is nonetheless still used in discussions (Valentine et al, 2002;Zook et al, 2004;Valentine and Skelton, 2008;Longhurst, 2013;Kinsley, 2014).…”

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Attending to others: how digital technologies direct young people's nightlife

Truong

2018

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. It is a growing phenomenon that young people use mobile information and communication technologies during their nightlife. This article offers an empirical examination of how young people's nightlife is shaped by engagement with the mobile phone application WhatsApp. Drawing on Sara Ahmed's phenomenological concept of orientation, I examine how WhatsApp extends young people's nightlife and how young people become orientated therein. On the one hand, I show that nightlife acquires new boundaries and fixities that encourage young people to direct their attention towards missing social relations and absent nightlife places. On the other hand, I find that young people create new perceptions of how to inhabit and spend leisure time and space. I argue that digital technologies reorientate young people, which I suggest offers novel means of addressing young people's contemporary nightlife practices, places, spaces, and social relations.

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Rethinking the geographies of cultural ‘objects’ through digital technologies

Cited by 154 publications

References 78 publications

Vulgar geographies? Popular cultural geographies and technology

Vulgar geographies? Popular cultural geographies and technology

What Is Where? The Role of Map Representations and Mapping Practices in Advancing Scholarship

Attending to others: how digital technologies direct young people's nightlife

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