Changing Digital Geographies: Technologies, Environments and People
暫譯: 變革數位地理:技術、環境與人類
McLean, Jessica
- 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
- 出版日期: 2019-09-18
- 售價: $4,350
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $4,133
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 267
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3030283062
- ISBN-13: 9783030283063
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商品描述
This book examines the changing digital geographies of the Anthropocene. It analyses how technologies are providing new opportunities for communication and connection, while simultaneously deepening existing problems associated with isolation, global inequity and environmental harm. By offering a reading of digital technologies as 'more-than-real', the author argues that the productive and destructive possibilities of digital geographies are changing important aspects of human and non-human worlds. Like the more-than-human notion and how it emphasises interconnections of humans and non-humans in the world, the more-than-real inverts the diminishing that accompanies use of the terms 'virtual' and 'immaterial' as applied to digital spaces.
Digital geographies are fluid, amorphous spaces made of contradictory possibilities in this Anthropocene moment. By sharing experiences of people involved in trying to improve digital geographies, this book offers stories of hope and possibility alongside stories of grief and despair. The more-than-real concept can help us understand such work - by feminists, digital rights activists, disability rights activists, environmentalists and more. Drawing on case studies from around the world, this book will appeal to academics, university students, and activists who are keen to learn from other people's efforts to change digital geographies, and who also seek to remake digital geographies.
Digital geographies are fluid, amorphous spaces made of contradictory possibilities in this Anthropocene moment. By sharing experiences of people involved in trying to improve digital geographies, this book offers stories of hope and possibility alongside stories of grief and despair. The more-than-real concept can help us understand such work - by feminists, digital rights activists, disability rights activists, environmentalists and more. Drawing on case studies from around the world, this book will appeal to academics, university students, and activists who are keen to learn from other people's efforts to change digital geographies, and who also seek to remake digital geographies.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書探討了人類世(Anthropocene)中不斷變化的數位地理。它分析了技術如何提供新的溝通和連結機會,同時加深了與孤立、全球不平等和環境傷害相關的現有問題。作者通過將數位技術視為「超越現實」(more-than-real),主張數位地理的生產性和破壞性可能性正在改變人類和非人類世界的重要面向。類似於「超越人類」(more-than-human)的概念,強調人類與非人類之間的相互聯繫,「超越現實」顛覆了使用「虛擬」(virtual)和「非物質」(immaterial)這些術語所帶來的貶低,這些術語應用於數位空間。
數位地理是在這個人類世時刻中流動且無形的空間,由矛盾的可能性構成。通過分享那些致力於改善數位地理的人們的經驗,本書提供了希望與可能性的故事,與悲傷與絕望的故事並存。「超越現實」的概念可以幫助我們理解這些工作——無論是女性主義者、數位權利活動家、殘障權益活動家、環保人士等。這本書借鑒了來自世界各地的案例研究,將吸引學者、大學生和渴望學習他人改變數位地理努力的活動家,並且也希望重新塑造數位地理。
作者簡介
Jessica McLean is a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Planning at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research focuses on two areas: digital geographies and water cultures. Both research areas call for critical, engaged and situated research praxis, building on partnership approaches with community groups and individuals who are working in Indigenous, feminist and digital rights contexts. Jessica has published in a range of academic and accessible publications on topics relating to environmental justice, digital lives and the Anthropocene.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
杰西卡·麥克林(Jessica McLean)是澳大利亞麥考瑞大學(Macquarie University)地理與規劃系的講師。她的研究專注於兩個領域:數位地理學和水文化。這兩個研究領域都需要批判性、參與性和具體情境的研究實踐,並基於與社區團體和在原住民、女性主義及數位權利背景下工作的個體的夥伴關係方法。杰西卡在多個學術和通俗出版物上發表了與環境正義、數位生活和人類世(Anthropocene)相關的主題。