The digital construction of space and place, and the renewed importance of traditional geographical concepts
Geography’s reflection of the digital revolution either draws connections to globalization as the disembedding of spatial relations due to technological progress or emphasizes the persistence of borders, inequalities and place identities as its counterpart. The article develops a model that treats b...
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I28-R145-6912_oai2020-09-02 Felgenhauer, Tilo 2019-07-01 Geography’s reflection of the digital revolution either draws connections to globalization as the disembedding of spatial relations due to technological progress or emphasizes the persistence of borders, inequalities and place identities as its counterpart. The article develops a model that treats both sides of this figure, more as intertwined than contrasting. First, an introduction is given to the character and consequences of globalization and technological change and to the traditional meanings of space and place. With regard to the latter three main aspects of traditional geographical imaginations will be outlined: (i) a physical ontology of spatial entities such as country, region, landscape or place, as clearly defined individual and distinct containers of natural and cultural features; (ii) the assumption of natural relations between place and local communities, and (iii) the (in principle) static character of those entities. Contemporary everyday interaction with digital devices necessarily reflect/include two sides: technological change and of traditional geographic thinking. In order to analyze this relationship, a distinction of numeric components, deictic language and toponymy are suggested reflecting technological system, the user individual and the community/collective. While applying this distinction, it should become clear how and why practices of using digital media and technology refer to traditional geographic concepts. Thus, traditional geographical imaginations can be considered to be an integral part of digitalized everyday practices –and do not only constitute a persistent residue opposed to them–. La Geografía ha abordado la revolución digital asumiendo que la globalización implicó la pérdida de anclaje de las relaciones espaciales o, por el contrario, la persistencia de las fronteras, las desigualdades y las identidades construidas desde el lugar. Se propone aquí un modelo para analizar estos dos aspectos de manera integral. En primer lugar, se analizará el carácter y las consecuencias del cambio tecnológico y la globalización. En segundo lugar, se examinarán tres aspectos de los imaginarios geográficos tradicionales: (i) la ontología de una serie de entidades espaciales –tales como país, región, paisaje y lugar– definidas como receptáculos de características naturales y culturales; (ii) el supuesto de existencia de relaciones naturales entre el lugar y las comunidades locales, (iii) el carácter –en principio– estático de estas entidades espaciales. Las interacciones contemporáneas con los dispositivos digitales necesariamente incluyen dos aspectos: el cambio tecnológico y el pensamiento geográfico tradicional. Con la finalidad de analizar esta interacción se propone establecer una distinción entre la representación tecnológica del espacio, en términos algorítmicos, la recreación gráfica y lingüística de una geografía vivida a nivel del usuario individual y, finalmente, la referencia a topónimos a nivel de un colectivo. Los imaginarios geográficos tradicionales, entonces, serían parte integral de las prácticas digitales cotidianas de la contemporaneidad y no solo una capa residual que se opone a ellos. application/pdf http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/RPS/article/view/6912 10.34096/ps.n1.6912 spa Instituto de Geografía "Romualdo Ardissone"-UBA http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/RPS/article/view/6912/6132 Punto sur; Núm. 1 (2019): Julio-Diciembre; 38-57 2683-7404 digital technologies globalization geographical categories geographical imaginations tecnologías digitales globalización conceptos geográficos imaginarios geográficos The digital construction of space and place, and the renewed importance of traditional geographical concepts La renovada importancia de los conceptos geográficos tradicionales en la construcción digital del espacio y del lugar info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=puntosur&d=6912_oai |
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Geography’s reflection of the digital revolution either draws connections to globalization as the disembedding of spatial relations due to technological progress or emphasizes the persistence of borders, inequalities and place identities as its counterpart. The article develops a model that treats both sides of this figure, more as intertwined than contrasting. First, an introduction is given to the character and consequences of globalization and technological change and to the traditional meanings of space and place. With regard to the latter three main aspects of traditional geographical imaginations will be outlined: (i) a physical ontology of spatial entities such as country, region, landscape or place, as clearly defined individual and distinct containers of natural and cultural features; (ii) the assumption of natural relations between place and local communities, and (iii) the (in principle) static character of those entities. Contemporary everyday interaction with digital devices necessarily reflect/include two sides: technological change and of traditional geographic thinking. In order to analyze this relationship, a distinction of numeric components, deictic language and toponymy are suggested reflecting technological system, the user individual and the community/collective. While applying this distinction, it should become clear how and why practices of using digital media and technology refer to traditional geographic concepts. Thus, traditional geographical imaginations can be considered to be an integral part of digitalized everyday practices –and do not only constitute a persistent residue opposed to them–. |
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The digital construction of space and place, and the renewed importance of traditional geographical concepts |
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