Tag: technology
Visualizing Learning and Media Ecologies
At the Digital Edge, the research group I have been working for the past 20 months, we have been studying the digital media and learning practices of young peop...
GPS Traces as Drawings
The possibility of recording movements in space is something that has attracted me since I was a kid. I loved to draw maps of my journeys and document the path ...
FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 4)
OSM in Action. During the six years of history, the OSM project has been able to grow thanks to the volunteer work of an active community of amateur mappers and...
FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 2)
In July of 2004, Steve Coast, a 24-year-old British computer scientist and entrepreneur, started OpenStreetMap (OSM) with the objective of creating a free edita...
Got Literacy?
“Literacy” is one of the English language words that has become more contested and opaque due to its spawning across diverse fields. Attached to dif...
The Circuit of Culture of the GPS Personal Navigation Device (Part 2)
III. A Complex Techno-militar-scientific-media System (production) After the World Wars of the 20th century and during the Cold Ward, the United States of Ameri...