HyperCities thick mapping and Digital humanities. it basically deals about digital humanities. the presentation based on a book chapter called HyperCities Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities.
5. What do the humanities have to do with
map-making?
◎ The humanities to create and re-create representations
of places
◎ Exploring, participating, and listening transforms
concept of mapping practice
◎ “zoomed out” & “zoomed in”
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7. “Windows” onto the HyperCities
Los Angeles Ghost Maps
PDub Productions: Mapping HiFi
Rome: Jumping Over the Line
Mapping the 2009 Election Protests in
Tehran
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9. HyperCities
HyperCities doesn’t exist
Geographical meaning refer to densely
populated cities( 20M+)
Only a series of prototypes, experiments,
code modules, and projects
Dialectical story of an idea through many voices and with many
authors
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10. Thick Mapping
Mapping is not a one-time thing, and maps are not stable objects
Digital Map 1970s
Web-based mapping applications Such as Google Earth, Google
Maps API, OpenStreetMap, and WorldMap
Thick mapping refers to the processes of collecting, aggregating,
and visualizing layers of geographic or place-specific data.
Conjoined with stories, and stories are conjoined with maps,
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12. Digita Humanities
Not just about “Humanities” or
the “Digital”
DH as a composite approaches
rather different approaches
Digital alter-ego of inter-cultural
studies
Emerging field of intellectual
endeavor
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15. Reference
1. Presner, Todd, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano. Hypercities thick
mapping in the digital humanities. 2014.
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXntT7_ ts5g
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