Hi All,
I'm thinking of proposing a panel at Where 2.0 and I'd like your
suggestions. This would be the sister panel of one I've already
organized for this year's Association of American Geographers' Annual
Conference (to be held mid-March in Las Vegas; AAG being the land of the
paleos). Here's the abstract for the AAG panel.
Panel: Neogeographers meet Paleogeographers
The Geoweb has revolutionized digital cartography and GIScience. The
revolutionaries are neogeographers. According to Turner (2006),
“Neogeography is about people using and creating their own maps, on
their own terms and by combining elements of an existing toolset”.
Toolsets involve user-generated geospatial content (aka volunteered
geographic information): geotagged Flickr photographs, Google Maps
Mashups, Open Street maps, and loopt. It’s more than software or
Internet apps, “The geoaware Web isn’t a product we buy; it’s an
environment we colonize" (Udall 2005).
Neogeography is posited as antithetical to traditional geography. To
neos, GIScience appears fixated on data accuracy, vetting and
documentation. Critical GIS makes dire pronouncements for geospatial
gadgetry. Neogeographers call for flexible and playful artistic
engagement with place (a “dissident cartographic aesthetic”, {Holmes
2006}). Neogeographers, birthed in wikipedia ideologies of
egalitarianism and disdain for expertise, believe in “radical openness”
(Udall 2005). GIScience is seen as a closed (and, coincidentally,
insufficiently computational) enterprise, relying on clubbiness and on
proprietary software. With this characterization, can neo and paleo ever
be reconciled?
Panelists come from both camps, and will consider four questions. 1.
What is the landscape of UGGC and what does it reveal about the deeper
social and political implications of the Geoweb? 2. What can each camp
offer the other and what are the barriers impeding communication? 3.
What role does expertise hold in colonizing the Geoweb? 4. If neo is the
current thing then what is post-neo? Panelists will seek linkages among
paleo, neo, and geo.
AAG Panel has me, Andre Skupin, Martin Dodge, Sean Gorman, and Andrew
Turner.
What I need for Where is suggestions for panelists. It'd have to be
fairly small. I've talk to Sean Gorman and Andrew Turner and they're
game. Probably only one other neogeographer/geowanker (if that). What I
need are one-two paleos who are attending Where.
Also, you'll notice that the above abstract is a bit hard on the paleos
and gracious to the neos. What I'd need is some wording that's gracious
to the paleos. Can you think of good things to say about traditional
cartographer and GIScience? (Obviously I can, but I'm curious as to
others' impressions.)
Thanks,
Renee
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