Media's Mapping Impulse

Chris Lukinbeal (ed.), Laura Sharp (ed.), Elisabeth Sommerlad (ed.), Anton Escher (ed.)

Cartography is one of the oldest forms of media. With cartography and media, meaning, ideology, and power are commonly arbitrated across and through space and time. Media has an underlying mapping impulse - a proclivity to comprehend and comprehensible through metaphors of topologies, networks, and flows that lead to the constant evacuation of spaces in order to produce places of communication. It is not static, but instead, it is ongoing, it is ongoing and we are talking about how we understand and interact with our world. Developments in mobile computing have not increased the pace, flow, and interaction of media across space, but also the ubiquity, and thus the taken-for-grantedness, of mapping. Owing to the practices of the neogeographers of the Geoweb, Media's Mapping Impulse is an interdisciplinary collection that explores the relationship between cartography, geospatial technologies, and local media on the one hand, and new and traditional media forms such as social media, mobile apps, and film on the other.

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