00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217612712756 Buklod 20230619154520.0 a r |||| u| ta 180326s xx d r |||| u| 9781441139795 (iLib)UPD-00360916340 SS-11380 Linar Php4,977 Geography DLC DMLS rda eng DMLUC G 70.212 S86 2015 Summerhayes,Catherine author. Google earth outreach and activism Catherine Summerhayes. New York Bloomsbury Academic [2015] 200 pages illustrations 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. In order to be able to communicate and engage with each other via new communicative spaces such as Google Earth, we need to understand as much as possible about how they work as cultural texts: how and why we make them and how we respond to them. Launched in 2005, Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program, mapping the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery and aerial photography. By addressing the sociopolitical issues at stake in society's use of social websites, the author provides the first ever extended close reading of Google Earth as a powerful player in the communication realm of social media. By grounding the context of its military pre-history, its construction, its links to other similar world-making sites such as Google Maps and how it is perceived critically by social scientists, it is imperative to understand how social networking and information sites work in socio and geo-political contexts if society is to use these sites effectively and for the public good. Geographic information systems. Geographic information systems Social aspects. Book FO UPD DMLS G 70.212 S86 2015 Book