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Lammes, Sybille (2017) Digital mapping interfaces : from immutable mobiles to mutable images. New Media & Society, 19 (7). pp. 1019-1033. doi:10.1177/1461444815625920 ISSN 1461-4448.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444815625920
Abstract
In this article, I discuss how digital mapping interfaces ask users to engage with images on screens in far more performative and active ways and how this changes the immutable status of the map image. Digital mapping interfaces invite us to touch, talk and move with them, actions that have a reciprocal effect on the look of the image of the map. Images change constantly through absorbing our mobile and physical actions. I approach digital mapping interfaces as mediators: They do not so much collect information as create spatial transformations for the user of the interface, thus instigating new moves on his or her part that are fed once again into the interface. I argue that it is therefore short-sighted to view digital mapping interfaces as mere points of passage. They are better understood as mediators that create spatial meanings by translating between and inviting movements of users, vehicles, programs and so on.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GA Mathematical geography. Cartography | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Digital mapping, Digital maps, Cartography | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | New Media & Society | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1461-4448 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 July 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 19 | ||||||||
| Number: | 7 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1019-1033 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1461444815625920 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 November 2016 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 November 2016 | ||||||||
| Funder: | Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7) | ||||||||
| Grant number: | Grant agreement no. 283464 |
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