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"...the book offers a thoroughly accessible and important introduction to the political implications of the development and deployment of such 'mapping systems'. Not only are the various aspects of GIS well theorized throughout the various articles, but the book offers a significant contribution to the developing theory of technological representation." --The Year's Work in English Studies "Coming as the latest offering in an exciting series entitled "Mappings: Society/Theory/Space," this book provides the first indepth engagement of GIS with critical social theory. It is a 'must-read,' 'must-teach' book." --Annals of the Association of American Geographers -- Review
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"I recomment it highly for GIS users and instucters....Planners' use of GIS would be richer and wiser if those who used and taught the technology paid attention to the important lessons contained in this book." --Richard E. Klosterman in APA Journal
"There is a great deal of substance for important and engaging debate...GIS is an extremely important medium that has had relatively little attention paid to its message. This book advances the search for the essence of that message..." --Prof. Tom Meredith, Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
"... the contributions of many of the chapters in Ground Truth offer intellectually insightful work that will help connect the work of social theorists with the GIS research community." --Francis Harvey, University of Washington, Professional Geographer
"Ground Truth provides just the kind of illuminating critique of spatial technologies that has long been needed. In an era of hype about the Information Superhighway it is often difficult to sort out who benefits and who loses in the rush to embrace this dream. Pickles has assembled here a selection of major authors who are familiar with GIS and spatial technologies in order to help us pick a way through these claims. As a result, this book is a well balanced and unflinching look at the societal relations of technology, which will provide many points of departure for upper level or graduate seminars, while deeply informing the work of those of us using GIS and spatial imaging." --Jeremy Crampton, Ph.D., George Mason University
"Ground Truth is the first work to deal with one of the most powerful among the new information and imaging technologies: the Geographic Information Systems. By radically modifying our conceptions of earth and space, and our capacity to control them, GIS might bring about profound socioeconomic and cultural restructurings. This courageous collection conveys the real meaning of postmodern geographies, including technology's role in articulating alternative cultural and political projects." --Arturo Escobar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Cyber-empires (old title) is essential reading since for the first time it brings under one cover a series of assessments of the broader impacts of GIS on Geography and society. As such, it signals a new cross-fertilization of the interests of those social theorists in geography who are both fascinated by and concerned with GIS, with those more concerned with its technical problems and possibilities. Containing contributions from both critics and proponents of GIS, and providing a more balanced and nuanced assessment than some of the exchanges in academic journals, its contributions address such concrete topics as the implications of geodemographic marketing; the potential and problems of connecting GIS use with indigenous understandings of land use in South Africa; ethical inconsistencies associated with the use of GIS; the images of GIS promoted by the industry; labor processes underlying map-making with GIS; and GIS as a social technology.
This book holds out promise for a broadening of the research agenda on GIS; from issues of storage, communication, and analysis of data, to questions of GIS as a social technology. Both GIS and geography need each other, for very different reasons, in our instrumental and technical society. The kind of broadening that this book promises can enrich connections between the two. It can provide GIS users with a richer understanding of why use of GIS is not just applied science, but has the potential of transforming how we think about the toward as well as changing the spatiality of society. While GIS reinforces panoptic views of the world, instrumental social practices and positivist scientific methodologies that do not encompass the richness of geography, it also reflects pervasive and influential changes in our society. Geographers must understand and analyze these changes if we are to separate the positive from the undesirable aspects of GIS, and communicate how to make such a separation to the millions who will use GIS for their own purposes--and think they are doing Geography--whether we approve or not. This book begins to raise in a systematic manner the questions that must be asked on the way to such an understanding." --Eric Sheppard, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota
"There is a great deal of substance for important and engaging debate...GIS is an extremely important medium that has had relatively little attention paid to its message. This book advances the search for the essence of that message..." --Prof. Tom Meredith, Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
"... the contributions of many of the chapters in Ground Truth offer intellectually insightful work that will help connect the work of social theorists with the GIS research community." --Francis Harvey, University of Washington, Professional Geographer
"Ground Truth provides just the kind of illuminating critique of spatial technologies that has long been needed. In an era of hype about the Information Superhighway it is often difficult to sort out who benefits and who loses in the rush to embrace this dream. Pickles has assembled here a selection of major authors who are familiar with GIS and spatial technologies in order to help us pick a way through these claims. As a result, this book is a well balanced and unflinching look at the societal relations of technology, which will provide many points of departure for upper level or graduate seminars, while deeply informing the work of those of us using GIS and spatial imaging." --Jeremy Crampton, Ph.D., George Mason University
"Ground Truth is the first work to deal with one of the most powerful among the new information and imaging technologies: the Geographic Information Systems. By radically modifying our conceptions of earth and space, and our capacity to control them, GIS might bring about profound socioeconomic and cultural restructurings. This courageous collection conveys the real meaning of postmodern geographies, including technology's role in articulating alternative cultural and political projects." --Arturo Escobar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Cyber-empires (old title) is essential reading since for the first time it brings under one cover a series of assessments of the broader impacts of GIS on Geography and society. As such, it signals a new cross-fertilization of the interests of those social theorists in geography who are both fascinated by and concerned with GIS, with those more concerned with its technical problems and possibilities. Containing contributions from both critics and proponents of GIS, and providing a more balanced and nuanced assessment than some of the exchanges in academic journals, its contributions address such concrete topics as the implications of geodemographic marketing; the potential and problems of connecting GIS use with indigenous understandings of land use in South Africa; ethical inconsistencies associated with the use of GIS; the images of GIS promoted by the industry; labor processes underlying map-making with GIS; and GIS as a social technology.
This book holds out promise for a broadening of the research agenda on GIS; from issues of storage, communication, and analysis of data, to questions of GIS as a social technology. Both GIS and geography need each other, for very different reasons, in our instrumental and technical society. The kind of broadening that this book promises can enrich connections between the two. It can provide GIS users with a richer understanding of why use of GIS is not just applied science, but has the potential of transforming how we think about the toward as well as changing the spatiality of society. While GIS reinforces panoptic views of the world, instrumental social practices and positivist scientific methodologies that do not encompass the richness of geography, it also reflects pervasive and influential changes in our society. Geographers must understand and analyze these changes if we are to separate the positive from the undesirable aspects of GIS, and communicate how to make such a separation to the millions who will use GIS for their own purposes--and think they are doing Geography--whether we approve or not. This book begins to raise in a systematic manner the questions that must be asked on the way to such an understanding." --Eric Sheppard, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota
"...the book offers a thoroughly accessible and important introduction to the political implications of the development and deployment of such 'mapping systems'. Not only are the various aspects of GIS well theorized throughout the various articles, but the book offers a significant contribution to the developing theory of technological representation." --The Year's Work in English Studies
"Coming as the latest offering in an exciting series entitled "Mappings: Society/Theory/Space," this book provides the first indepth engagement of GIS with critical social theory. It is a 'must-read,' 'must-teach' book." --Annals of the Association of American Geographers
"Coming as the latest offering in an exciting series entitled "Mappings: Society/Theory/Space," this book provides the first indepth engagement of GIS with critical social theory. It is a 'must-read,' 'must-teach' book." --Annals of the Association of American Geographers
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cartographic labor process, traditional developmentalism, cartographic laborer, automated geography, geographic technologies, socioeconomic applications, surveillant society, rural land reform, cartographic information, quantitative revolution, geographical phenomena, quantitative geography, spatial data handling, theoretical geography, spatial practices, condition ofpostmodernity, representational spaces, applied geography, consumer identity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, South Africa, National Demographics, United States, Professional Geographer, Basil Blackwell, Geo Info Systems, National Planning Data Corporation, Strategic Mapping, Oxford University Press, Bureau of the Census, Business Geographics, Equifax Marketing Decision Systems, Fort Collins, Los Angeles, Eastern Transvaal, Geological Survey, Tactics International Limited, University of Chicago Press, Persian Gulf War, Santa Barbara, University of California, White River, World Bank, Donnelley Marketing Information Services New!
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cartographic labor process, traditional developmentalism, cartographic laborer, automated geography, geographic technologies, socioeconomic applications, surveillant society, rural land reform, cartographic information, quantitative revolution, geographical phenomena, quantitative geography, spatial data handling, theoretical geography, spatial practices, condition ofpostmodernity, representational spaces, applied geography, consumer identity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, South Africa, National Demographics, United States, Professional Geographer, Basil Blackwell, Geo Info Systems, National Planning Data Corporation, Strategic Mapping, Oxford University Press, Bureau of the Census, Business Geographics, Equifax Marketing Decision Systems, Fort Collins, Los Angeles, Eastern Transvaal, Geological Survey, Tactics International Limited, University of Chicago Press, Persian Gulf War, Santa Barbara, University of California, White River, World Bank, Donnelley Marketing Information Services New!
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- Multidimensional Geographic Information Science (Geographic Information Systems Workshop) by Jonathan Raper in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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