This document provides an overview of topics covered during weeks 1-15 of a spring 2009 class. Week 8 focuses on mapping for social justice, art, and friendship. Required reading discusses mobile social networking. Mapping can be used to deconstruct assumptions and political implications, and as a site of contestation and transparency. Examples shown include prisoner maps in Tunisia, crash data maps in NYC, and community-created maps. Students are assigned to create a personal map in Google Maps and explore art projects using maps.

1. Participation Literacy
Week# 8 Mapping for Social Justice
and Friendship
last update: March 30, 2009
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2. week 2
Conversation:
Overview, Getting Started Democracy and Blogging
week 1 Conversation:
week 3
Privacy and Social Networking
Attention Overload:
Search, Filter, Content Aggregation
Collective Action:
week 4 week 5 Flash Mobs, Activism, and Micro-Blogging
week 6
Collaboration:
week 7 Spring Break
Wikis, Wikipedia, Mashups Collaboration:
Collaborative Writing
week 8
Collaboration:
week 9
Mapping and
Sharing
Social Justice
Cooperation: Media Sharing
week 10
Sharing
week 11
Referral, Tagging, Folksonomies Sharing
Piracy and File Sharing
week 12
week 13 Sharing
week 14 Copyright and Virtual Worlds
Social Bookmarking
Social Music Sites
week 15
Social Cataloging Sites
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3. http://ada.pint.org.uk/map.html
“She is mainly known for having written a description of Charles
Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the
analytical engine. She is today appreciated as the quot;first
programmerquot; since she was writing programs—that is, manipulating
symbols according to rules—for a machine that Babbage had not
yet built. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go
It’s Ada Lovelace Day
beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others,
including Babbage himself, focused only on these capabilities.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

4. Mapping for Social Justice, Art, and Friendship
week 8
March 24, 26
Required Reading:
McCarthy, Caroline. quot;Brightkite: A bright future for mobile
social networking? | The Social - CNET News.quot; CNET News. 7
May 2008. 29 Jan. 2009 <http://news.cnet.com/
8301-13577_3-9937898-36.html>.
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5. quot;In 1968 the largest building in Southeast Asia was the Infiltra:on
Surveillance Center (ISC) at Nakhom Phanom in Thailand, the command
center of US Air Force Opera:on Igloo White. Inside the ISC vigilant
technicians pored over banks of video displays, controlled by IBM
360/65 computers and connected to thousands of sensors strewn across
the Ho Chi Minh Trail in southern Laos.
quot;The sensors ‐‐ shaped like twigs, jungle plants, and animal droppings
‐‐ were designed to detect any human ac:vity: the noises of truck
engines, body heat, even the scent of human urine. When they picked
up a signal, it appeared on the remote display terminals of the ISC
as a moving white 'worm' superimposed on a map grid. As soon as the
ISC computers could calculate the 'worm's' direc:on and rate of
mo:on, coordinates were radioed to Phantom F‐4 jets patrolling the
night sky. The planes' naviga:on systems and computers automa:cally
guided them to the 'box,' or map grid square, to be a]acked. The ISC
central computers were also capable of controlling the release of
bombs automa:cally. The pilot might do no more than sit and watch
as the invisible jungle below exploded into flames. In most cases no
American ever actually saw the targets at all.
quot;The 'worm' would then disappear from the screen at the ISC. This
en:re process normally took no more than five minutes.quot;
(Paul N. Edwards, quot;The Closed World,quot; chapter 1)
Subject: Re: <nebme> Cyberne:cs and the Internet
Date: March 15, 2009 3:31:31 AM EDT
From: Brian Holmes

6. http://parkingspacenow.smgov.net/

7. http://www.housingmaps.com/

8. http://whoissick.org/sickness

9. Maps as sites of power
deconstructing assumptions and political implications of maps

10. http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/locative/
Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion World Map-unfolded, 1946
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dymaxion_2003_animation_small1.gif

11. http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/locative/
Deconstructing assumptions and political implications of maps
Critical cartography differs from academic cartography in that it links geographic knowledge with power.
Critical cartographers do not aim to invalidate maps instead the critique is careful analysis of maps identifying
attributes of the maps that are taken for granted.

12. The location of the German/German border in East German maps
was distorted to mislead those who’d try to escape

13. Earth at Night
maps as sites of power

14. Earth at Night
maps as sites of power
http://www.worldmapper.org/animations/internet_users_animation.html

15. http://www.worldmapper.org/images/largepng/335.png
Internet use 1990

16. http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=336
Internet use 2002

17. Maps as tools for transparency

18. http://www.state.gov/secretary/trvl/map/?trip_id=5

19. http://confluxfestival.org/conflux2008/cartography-of-protest-and-social-changes/

20. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mApBa2qKVDM
Trevor Paglen

21. extraordinary rendition flights
http://appliedautonomy.com/terminalair/index.html

23. http://www.an-atlas.com/contents/hunt_gordon.html

24. Maps created by friend networks

25. http://www.frappr.com/

26. http://platial.com/

27. http://blog.nickt.com/wp‐content/uploads/2008/10/bk‐nearby.png
http://evansims.smugmug.com/photos/286770818_jUYmN‐X3.jpg

28. Map design as an analysis
of power in society
mapping as contestational practice
maps that challenger mainstream narratives
maps that revisit history from the perspective of marginalized communities

29. http://www.flickr.com/photos/treborscholz/3351418664/

30. http://www.justicemapping.org/expertise/

31. students submit summaries of articles through Zoho

34. http://www.justicemapping.org/expertise/

35. “Tunisian Prisoners Map tries to make a dent by mapping cases at about 25 detention facilities. You can see some of the
prisons in impressive detail if you zoom in, but many of the locations are approximate.”
“according to some sources, the Tunisian government is currently holding an estimated 350 political http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2005/04/28/
prisoners in prisons around the country, and there are regular human rights reports focusing on the tunisia-lawyer-imprisoned-online-dissent
treatment and welfare of the prisoners” http://kitab.nl/tunisianprisonersmap/

36. CrashStat. Display pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities from 1995-2005 on a Google Map of New York City.
http://www.crashstat.org/

37. theyrule.net

38. http://www.albany.edu/museum/wwwmuseum/work/lombardi/images/lombardi1.jpg

39. http://www.pumpitout.com/pictures/marklombardi.jpg

41. http://utangente.free.fr/anewpages/cartes.html

42. http://bureaudetudes.free.fr/images/armes.gif

43. skate boarding, bike paths
http://chicagoatlas.areaprojects.com/

44. Maps created by local communities

45. http://www.chron.com/houstongardening/texaswildflowersmap.html

46. http://www.signalmap.com/

47. http://www.communitywalk.com/new_york/ny/map/358796

48. Assignment

49. How to create a quot;My Mapquot; in Google Maps
http://is.gd/oHfv
http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=68480

50. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft7FZe6Q8OI

51. Art projects using Google Maps

52. “Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from
satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your
web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new
weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.”
http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/06/16/street-fight/

53. http://urbanomnibus.net/#

54. streetartlocator.com is a community google map mashup mapping street art the world over. You can find all aspects of street art here from Graffiti to the
Galleries that host lowbrow exhibitions and street art produced using more
http://streetartlocator.com/

55. http://streetartlocator.com/

56. http://www.youarenothere.org/

57. http://woices.com/

58. http://www.ourstories.org/
The Our Stories™ project helps people share the stories of their lives, no matter where they live or how their
stories unfold. We're providing resources to create and share personal stories from all over the world, starting
with children in developing countries who are using One Laptop per Child (OLPC) computers or those who are
working with UNICEF radio producers to record and share interviews. Children are asked to record the stories of
elders, family members, and friends.

60. http://www.sf.biomapping.net/map.htm

61. http://www.disappearedinamerica.org/database/map/

62. http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/victimas/eng.html
Argentina

63. http://www.reverberant.com/SM/index.htm

64. Trebor Scholz
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