Geographical data are used in so many aspects of our lives today, ranging from disaster
relief operations through to finding directions on our mobile phones. We can all be data …

The starting point of this book is an article in which Stefania Milan and I set the scene, link
data activism to the tradition of citizens' media and lay out the fundamental questions …

Information has always had geography. It is from somewhere; about somewhere; it evolves
and is transformed somewhere; it is mediated by networks, infrastructures, and technologies …

Geographers interested in the social and political implications of the geoweb have recently
turned their attention to its attendant “knowledge politics”. Such work looks at the processes …

Cartography has historically been a weapon of colonists used to demarcate land stolen by
empire. More recently, however,'critical cartographies' have emerged as a means of …

Object-Oriented Cartography provides an innovative perspective on the changing nature of
maps and cartographic study. Through a renewed theoretical reading of contemporary …

In this third report, I focus on cognitive cartography in order to examine how the historical
division between empiricist and critical approaches in cartography has shifted recently. I do …

The goal of this second report is to review how social media are changing the way we
collectively map the world. To reach this goal I review different collective map** practices …

This paper presents the main messages of a South American expert roundtable (ERT) on
the unintended side effects (unseens) of digital transformation. The input of the ERT …

In this article, I discuss how digital map** interfaces ask users to engage with images on
screens in far more performative and active ways and how this changes the immutable …