Geographies of Digital Exclusion: Data and Inequality (Radical Geography) - Hardcover

Graham, Mark; Dittus, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745340199 ISBN 13: 9780745340197

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2022

Synopsis

Today's urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digitally dense environments continuing to amplify inequalities rather than alleviate them? This book looks at the key contours of information inequality, and who, what and where gets left out.

Platforms like Google Maps and Wikipedia have become important gateways to understanding the world, and yet they are characterised by significant gaps and biases, often driven by processes of exclusion. As a result, their digital augmentations tend to be refractions rather than reflections: they highlight only some facets of the world at the expense of others.

This doesn't mean that more equitable futures aren't possible. By outlining the mechanisms through which our digital and material worlds intersect, the authors conclude with a roadmap for what alternative digital geographies might look like.

About this title

About the Authors

Mark Graham is Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

Martin Dittus is a digital geographer and data scientist at the Oxford Internet Institute, with a decade of experience in social computing, mass-participation platforms and big data.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745340199
• ISBN 13: 9780745340197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208