Ash, James and Kitchin, Rob and Leszczynski, Agnieszka (2015) Digital turn, digital geography? Programmable City Working Paper 17. Working Paper. Maynooth University.

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine the relationship between the digital and geography. Our analysis provides an overview of the rich scholarship that has examined: (1) geographies of the digital, (2) geographies produced by the digital, and (3) geographies produced through the digital. Using this material we reflect on two questions: has there been a digital turn in geography? and, would it be productive to delimit ‘digital geography’ as a field of study within the discipline, as has recently occurred with the attempt to establish ‘digital anthropology’ and ‘digital sociology’? We argue that while there has been a digital turn across geographical sub-disciplines, the digital is now so pervasive in mediating the production of space and in producing geographic knowledge that it makes little sense to delimit digital geography as a distinct field. Instead, we believe it is more productive to think about how the digital reshapes many geographies.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Keywords:	digital; geography; computing; digital turn; digital geography;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA
Item ID:	7234
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2674257
Depositing User:	Prof. Rob Kitchin
Date Deposited:	12 Aug 2016 11:58
Publisher:	Maynooth University
Refereed:	Yes
Funders:	European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award
URI:	http://www.nuim.ie/progcity/
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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