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Images of the City in the Making: Participatory Mapping, Dynamic Data Processing and Collective Knowledge

Publication date: 2014

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2013, Issue 4 (18) , pp. 287 - 300

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.13.029.2081

Authors

Anna Nacher
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3192-2724 Orcid
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Images of the City in the Making: Participatory Mapping, Dynamic Data Processing and Collective Knowledge

Abstract

The article focuses on the practices relevant for digital mapping based on dynamic data processing and GIS. I argue that participatory mapping can be seen as a form of data driven activism and as such it is first and foremost the example of the collective knowledge. Hence, the primary function of the images (e.g. maps) produced in the process is not so much the representation of the city as rather it is the role they play in the dynamic operations of knowledge production on a grassroots level. Given that the computing technology and data processing saturate the social relations of the contemporary urban environments to the considerable extent, certain shift in the scope of analysis is required: the focus on how the images emerge and how they act in the world seems to be more relevant than the traditional analysis of the city’s visual representation.

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Information: Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2013, Issue 4 (18) , pp. 287 - 300

Article type: Original article

Titles:

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Images of the City in the Making: Participatory Mapping, Dynamic Data Processing and Collective Knowledge

English:

Images of the City in the Making: Participatory Mapping, Dynamic Data Processing and Collective Knowledge

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3192-2724

Anna Nacher
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3192-2724 Orcid
All publications →

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 2014

Article status: Open

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