TY - JOUR
TI - Images of the City in the Making: Participatory Mapping, Dynamic Data Processing and Collective Knowledge
AU - Nacher, Anna
TI - Images of the City in the Making: Participatory Mapping, Dynamic Data Processing and Collective Knowledge
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2013
IS - Issue 4 (18)
PY - 2014
SN - 1895-975X
C1 - 2084-3860
SP - 287
EP - 300
DO - 10.4467/20843860PK.13.029.2081
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/images-of-the-city-in-the-making-participatory-mapping-dynamic-data-processing-and-collective-knowledge
KW - geomedia
KW - urban computing
KW - participatory mapping
KW - data-driven activism
KW - Ushahidi
KW - Crowdmap