Geography and Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXXII

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2. Geography and Technology Interfaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Geography and Technology

      • Thomas J. Wilbanks

      Pages 3-16

   3. Communications Technology and the Production of Geographical Knowledge

      • Ron Johnston

      Pages 17-35

   4. Federal Funding, Geographic Research, and Geographic Technologies: 1904–2004

      • Fred M. Shelley, Wendy Bigler, Richard Aspinall

      Pages 37-62

3. Technologies That Changed Geography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. The Imbrication of Geography and Technology: The Social Construction of Geographic Information Systems

      • Francis J. Harvey, Nicholas R. Chrisman

      Pages 65-80

   3. Computers and Geography: From Automated Geography to Digital Earth

      • Daniel Sui, Richard Morrill

      Pages 81-108

   4. Remote Sensing of Selected Biophysical Variables and Urban/Suburban Phenomena

      • John R. Jensen, Michael E. Hodgson

      Pages 109-154

   5. New Digital Geographies: Information, Communication, and Place

      • Matthew Zook, Martin Dodge, Yuko Aoyama, Anthony Townsend

      Pages 155-176

4. New Geographies with New Technologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. From Globes to GIS: The Paradoxical Role of Tools in School Geography

      • Roger M. Downs

      Pages 179-199

   3. Fieldwork in Nonwestern Contexts: Continuity and Change

      • Philip W. Porter, Lawrence S. Grossman

      Pages 201-220

   4. The Camera and Geographical Inquiry

      • John A. Jakle

      Pages 221-242

   5. Film Networks and the Place(s) of Technology

      • Deborah P. Dixon, Leo E. Zonn

      Pages 243-266

   6. Motor Vehicles on the American Landscape

      • James M. Rubenstein

      Pages 267-283

   7. Airspaces: Air Transport, Technology, and Society

      • Thomas R. Leinbach, John T. Bowen Jr.

      Pages 285-313

   8. A World on Demand: Geography of the 24-Hour Global TV News

      • David R. Rain, Susan R. Brooker-Gross

      Pages 315-337

   9. Democracy and Technology

      • Joanna Regulska

      Pages 339-361

   10. Technologies Applied to Public Health

       • Michael Greenberg

       Pages 363-381

It is particularly appropriate that the AAG's Centennial Celebration should prompt the publication of a volume devoted to Geography and Technology. New technologies have always been important in advancing geographic understanding, but never have they been so thoroughly and rapidly transformative of the discipline as at this stage in geography's evolution. Just as new technologies have profoundly expanded both research possibilities and the knowledge base of other disciplines, such as biology, physics or medicine, so too are the revolutionary new geographic technologies developed during the past few decades extending frontiers in geographic research, education and applications. They are also creating new and resurgent roles for geography in both society and in the university. This trend is still accelerating, as the integration of geographic technologies, such as the global positioning system and geographic information systems (GPS/GIS), is creating an explosion of new "real-time, real-world" applications and research capabilities. The resultant dynamic space/time interactive research and management environments created by interactive GPS/GIS, among other technologies, places geography squarely at the forefront of advanced multidisciplinary research and modeling programs, and has created core organization management tools (geographic management systems) which will dramatically change the way governments and businesses work in the decades ahead. While these and other important geographic technologies, including remote sensing, location-based services, and many others addressed in this book, are forging new opportunities for geography and geographers, they also pose challenges.

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• Evolution
• Geographie
• Image
• environment
• knowledge
• networks
• transport

"Just as new technologies have profoundly affected both research possibilities and the knowledge base of other disciplines, such as biology, physics, or medicine, so too are the revolutionary new geographic technologies developed during the past decades extending frontiers in geographic research, education, and applications."
(Douglas Richardson, Executive Director, Association of American Geographers)
"Geography and technology are not just related; each fundamentally defines the other. How we understand and use the earth is conditioned by technology, even as technology itself has developed as part of the effort to remake places and alter the meaning of geographical distance. In light of the scope of technological change in today's world, this book's focus on the geography-technology nexus is vital. It represents a research agenda of signal importance as the twenty-first century opens."
(Alexander B. Murphy, President, Association of American Geographers)
"Geographical questions about nature-society relations, climate change, processes of economic and political globalization, the shifting grounds of health, conflict and democratization across the globe, all entail critical analysis of technological change. This book reflects on the ways in which geographical and technological processes are mutually produced, as part of a vital research agenda for the coming century."
(Victoria A. Lawson, Vice President, Association of American Geographers)

• Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

  Stanley D. Brunn

• Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

  Susan L. Cutter

• Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  J. W. Harrington

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