Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era

Mark GrahamOxford Internet Institute

University of Oxford

web: www.geospace.co.ukemail: mark.graham@oii.ox.ac.uk

twitter: @geoplace

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“Once embedded in the published text the lines on the map acquire an authority that may be hard to dislodge. Maps are authoritarian images. Without our being aware of it maps can reinforce and legitimate the status quo.”

(Harley 1989, 14)

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“We’re trying to build a virtual mirror of the world at all times”

Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice President of Location Services

LeWeb Conference, Paris 2010.

“…all the world’s citizens will have the potential to access unlimited knowledge, to express themselves freely, and to contribute to and enjoy the benefits of the knowledge society.”

Dr. Hamadoun I. Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union. November 2012

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manypossibilities.netwww.telegeography.com/telecom-resources/map-gallery/

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manypossibilities.net

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8256940.stm

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manypossibilities.net

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Map by Mark Graham, Monica Stephens, Matthew Zook

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15th century

16th century

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“The sum of all human knowledge”

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augmented realities

augmented realities

a right to the city?

“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.”

“The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”

- Harvey 2008

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thank you

Mark GrahamOxford Internet InstituteUniversity of Oxford

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