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The social implications of geographic information systems / edited by John Pickles.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Jaipur : Rawat Publications, 2006Description: xvi, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9788170339595 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910.285 SOC 23 012530
Contents:
1. Representations in an Electronic Age: Geography, GIS, and Democracy /​ John Pickles 2. GIS and Geographic Research /​ Michael F. Goodchild 3. GIS and Geography /​ Peter J. Taylor and Ronald J. Johnston 4. GIS and the Inevitability of Ethical Inconsistency /​ Michael R. Curry 5. Computer Innovation and Adoption in Geography: A Critique of Conventional Technological Models /​ Howard Veregin 6. Manufacturing Metaphors: Public Cartography, the Market, and Democracy /​ Patrick H. McHaffie 7. Marketing the New Marketing: The Strategic Discourse of Geodemographic Information Systems /​ John Goss 8. Earth Shattering: Global Imagery and GIS /​ Susan M. Roberts and Richard H. Schein 9. Pursuing Social Goals Through Participatory GIS: Redressing South Africa's Historical Political Ecology /​ Trevor M. Harris, Daniel Weiner, Timothy Warner and Richard Levin 10. Conclusion: Towards an Economy of Electronic Representation and the Virtual Sign /​ John Pickles.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Representations in an Electronic Age: Geography, GIS, and Democracy /​ John Pickles
2. GIS and Geographic Research /​ Michael F. Goodchild
3. GIS and Geography /​ Peter J. Taylor and Ronald J. Johnston
4. GIS and the Inevitability of Ethical Inconsistency /​ Michael R. Curry
5. Computer Innovation and Adoption in Geography: A Critique of Conventional Technological Models /​ Howard Veregin
6. Manufacturing Metaphors: Public Cartography, the Market, and Democracy /​ Patrick H. McHaffie
7. Marketing the New Marketing: The Strategic Discourse of Geodemographic Information Systems /​ John Goss
8. Earth Shattering: Global Imagery and GIS /​ Susan M. Roberts and Richard H. Schein
9. Pursuing Social Goals Through Participatory GIS: Redressing South Africa's Historical Political Ecology /​ Trevor M. Harris, Daniel Weiner, Timothy Warner and Richard Levin
10. Conclusion: Towards an Economy of Electronic Representation and the Virtual Sign /​ John Pickles.

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