Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Google maps
In the colonial era cartography was a method of dominance and the exercision of power over another set of people. This is because a map can never be objective. For example, UK readers, open a map and look where the UK is in relation to the rest of the world (in the middle). Now things are different, perhaps? Users are now being asked to chart local space to build 3 domensinal representations of the world. More here.
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- Andrew McStay
- I am director of the Media and Persuasive Communication (MPC) network at Bangor University where I also lecture on political-economy of the media. I am currently working on a book provisionally titled Deconstructing Privacy for Peter Lang and leading two empirical projects in connection with privacy perception and the use of new media for smoking cessation. I am author of Creativity and Advertising: Affect, Events and Process (Routledge, 2013); The Mood of Information: A Critique of Behavioural Advertising (Continuum, 2011); and Digital Advertising (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009). Please contact me at mcstay@bangor.ac.uk if you are interested in Ph.D supervision or consultancy services.
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