This document provides an overview of topics covered during weeks 1-15 of a spring 2009 class. Week 8 focuses on mapping for social justice, art, and friendship. Required reading discusses mobile social networking. Mapping can be used to deconstruct assumptions and political implications, and as a site of contestation and transparency. Examples shown include prisoner maps in Tunisia, crash data maps in NYC, and community-created maps. Students are assigned to create a personal map in Google Maps and explore art projects using maps.
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Mapping for Social Justice and Friendship
1. Participation Literacy
Week# 8 Mapping for Social Justice
and Friendship
last update: March 30, 2009
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2. week 2
Conversation:
Overview, Getting Started Democracy and Blogging
week 1 Conversation:
week 3
Privacy and Social Networking
Attention Overload:
Search, Filter, Content Aggregation
Collective Action:
week 4 week 5 Flash Mobs, Activism, and Micro-Blogging
week 6
Collaboration:
week 7 Spring Break
Wikis, Wikipedia, Mashups Collaboration:
Collaborative Writing
week 8
Collaboration:
week 9
Mapping and
Sharing
Social Justice
Cooperation: Media Sharing
week 10
Sharing
week 11
Referral, Tagging, Folksonomies Sharing
Piracy and File Sharing
week 12
week 13 Sharing
week 14 Copyright and Virtual Worlds
Social Bookmarking
Social Music Sites
week 15
Social Cataloging Sites
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3. http://ada.pint.org.uk/map.html
“She is mainly known for having written a description of Charles
Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the
analytical engine. She is today appreciated as the quot;first
programmerquot; since she was writing programs—that is, manipulating
symbols according to rules—for a machine that Babbage had not
yet built. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go
It’s Ada Lovelace Day
beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others,
including Babbage himself, focused only on these capabilities.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
4. Mapping for Social Justice, Art, and Friendship
week 8
March 24, 26
Required Reading:
McCarthy, Caroline. quot;Brightkite: A bright future for mobile
social networking? | The Social - CNET News.quot; CNET News. 7
May 2008. 29 Jan. 2009 <http://news.cnet.com/
8301-13577_3-9937898-36.html>.
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11. http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/locative/
Deconstructing assumptions and political implications of maps
Critical cartography differs from academic cartography in that it links geographic knowledge with power.
Critical cartographers do not aim to invalidate maps instead the critique is careful analysis of maps identifying
attributes of the maps that are taken for granted.
12. The location of the German/German border in East German maps
was distorted to mislead those who’d try to escape
28. Map design as an analysis
of power in society
mapping as contestational practice
maps that challenger mainstream narratives
maps that revisit history from the perspective of marginalized communities
35. “Tunisian Prisoners Map tries to make a dent by mapping cases at about 25 detention facilities. You can see some of the
prisons in impressive detail if you zoom in, but many of the locations are approximate.”
“according to some sources, the Tunisian government is currently holding an estimated 350 political http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2005/04/28/
prisoners in prisons around the country, and there are regular human rights reports focusing on the tunisia-lawyer-imprisoned-online-dissent
treatment and welfare of the prisoners” http://kitab.nl/tunisianprisonersmap/
36. CrashStat. Display pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities from 1995-2005 on a Google Map of New York City.
http://www.crashstat.org/
52. “Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from
satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your
web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new
weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.”
http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/06/16/street-fight/
54. streetartlocator.com is a community google map mashup mapping street art the world over. You can find all aspects of street art here from Graffiti to the
Galleries that host lowbrow exhibitions and street art produced using more
http://streetartlocator.com/
58. http://www.ourstories.org/
The Our Stories™ project helps people share the stories of their lives, no matter where they live or how their
stories unfold. We're providing resources to create and share personal stories from all over the world, starting
with children in developing countries who are using One Laptop per Child (OLPC) computers or those who are
working with UNICEF radio producers to record and share interviews. Children are asked to record the stories of
elders, family members, and friends.