Screens & Maps: Is seeing believing?
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This document discusses how maps shape our understanding of the world by including or excluding certain information. It notes that early maps like Ptolemy's focused on regions relevant to the mapmaker, leaving out places they would never go. The document then provides examples of how different factors like driving rules, sports popularity, and policies vary globally. It also discusses how maps can influence social issues and how personalization algorithms may limit what information people see online.
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Screens & Maps: Is seeing believing?
- 1. SCREENS & MAPS: IS SEEING BELIEVING? Mathias Klang @klangable mklang@sju.edu
- 2. Venezuela – Worlds largest proven oil reserves Indonesia – Largest Muslim population India – Worlds largest democracy
- 4. “All cultures produce a world map that puts their own interests and concerns at its heart. Even Ptolemy said any world map must make decisions about what it includes and what it leaves out. Some of those can be sinister decisions, but more often they're simply practical ones. Do you need to show the North and South poles if you don't think you'll ever go there? Probably not.” JERRY BROTTON
- 5. PTOLEMY'S WORLD MAP (2ND CENTURY) IN A 15TH-CENTURY RECONSTRUCTION
- 8. Availability Google Street View
- 10. Countries that don’t use the metric system
- 13. World in Proportion to Population
- 14. Europe • Austria • Belgium • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Finland • France • Germany • Greece • Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Italy • Latvia • Liechtenstein • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Malta • Netherlands • Norway • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Slovakia • Slovenia • Spain • Sweden • United Kingdom
- 16. SOCIAL JUSTICE & MAPS
- 17. The West Wing (season 2, episode 16)
- 20. APPLICATIONS
- 22. Catcalling video? Where she walked…
- 23. The filmmakers claim to have shot this video while walking the streets of Manhattan for 10 hours, but over half of the shots in the video are actually taken from just one street, namely 125th St. in Harlem. It makes one wonder whether the filmmakers intentionally chose to concentrate their filming on a couple of neighborhoods, or if, out of many locations, these are the only places where harassment occurred.
- 24. GERRYMANDERING
- 25. ORIENTALISM
- 26. Peace of Westphalia 1646–1648
- 27. “National aspirations must be respected; people may now be dominated and governed only by their own consent. Self determination is not a mere phrase; it is an imperative principle of action. . . . ” WOODROW WILSON (1918)
- 28. The Middle East
- 31. Gaza Strip Population: 2014 estimate 1,816,379
- 32. AROUND ME & NAVIGATION
- 33. PERSONALIZATION
- 34. The internet is shows us what it thinks that we want to see – not what we need to see Eli Pariser
- 36. IT WILL BE VERY HARD FOR PEOPLE TO WATCH OR CONSUME SOMETHING THAT HAS NOT IN SOME SENSE BEEN TAILORED FOR THEM. Eric Schmidt, Google
- 37. TECHNOLOGY IS NOT INHERENTLY DEMOCRATIC
- 38. A SQUIRREL DYING IN YOUR FRONT YARD MAY BE MORE RELEVANT TO YOUR INTERESTS RIGHT NOW THAN PEOPLE DYING IN AFRICA Mark Zuckerberg
- 39. Google Maps search results are based primarily on relevance, distance, and prominence. These factors are combined to help us find the best match for your search. For example, our search technology might decide that a business that’s farther away from your location is more likely to have what you’re looking for than a business that’s closer.
- 40. “Other businesses are deemed more relevant because they have been clicked on more.”
- 41. Mathias Klang mklang@sju.edu or @klangable www.klangable.com Image & licensing info in the notes section of slides. Images at www.flickr.com (or specifically stated). This ppt licensed: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Download presentation www.slideshare.net/klang
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