Ash, James, 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) |
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| 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: | 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 |
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| 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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