Google Earth: Outreach and Activism
In order to be able to communicate and engage with each other via new communicative spaces such as Google Earth, we need to understand as much as possible about how they work as cultural texts: how and why we make them and how we respond to them. Launched in 2005, Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program, mapping the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery and aerial photography. By addressing the sociopolitical issues at stake in society's use of social websites, the author provides the first ever extended close reading of Google Earth as a powerful player in the communication r…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4411-3497-4
- EAN: 9781441134974
- Produktnummer: 28060331
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'003 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 25 bw illus
Über den Autor
Catherine Summerhayes is Adjunct Fellow in the School of Literature Languages and Linguistics, at the Australian National University, Australia. Her major research areas are in documentary¬ film studies, new media theory and performance studies.
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