Google Earth: Outreach and Activism - Summerhayes, Catherine  (Australian National University, Australia) - Libros - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - 9781441139795 - 23 de abril de 2015
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Google Earth: Outreach and Activism


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In order to be able to communicate and engage with each other via new communicative spaces such as Google Earth, we need to understand as much as possible about how they work as cultural texts: how and why we make them and how we respond to them. Launched in 2005, Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program, mapping the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery and aerial photography. By addressing the sociopolitical issues at stake in society's use of social websites, the author provides the first ever extended close reading of Google Earth as a powerful player in the communication realm of social media. By grounding the context of its military pre-history, its construction, its links to other similar world-making sites such as Google Maps and how it is perceived critically by social scientists, it is imperative to understand how social networking and information sites work in socio and geo-political contexts if society is to use these sites effectively and for the public good.


192 pages, 25 bw illus

Medios de comunicación Libros     Hardcover Book   (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado 23 de abril de 2015
ISBN13 9781441139795
Editores Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Páginas 208
Dimensiones 160 × 238 × 19 mm   ·   432 g
Lengua Inglés  

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