AAG sessions - Is Google Good For Geography? Web2.0 and the Political Economy of User Generated Geographical Knowledge

Hello, Matt Zook and myself have pulled together a double session with 9 papers and a discussant for next AAG annual meeting.

The contributors are as follows:

• Elad Segev, Intentional and Unintentional Biases in Google Earth and Google Maps
• Tim Wallace, Has Google Homogenized our Landscape?
• Marc Boeckler, Tourism and Imaginative Geographies 2.0
• Andrew Boulton, Problematizing participation in the geoweb: Google Maps and the ideology of invitation
• Jeremy Crampton, Mapping Without a Net: Only for Google to Rope Us In?
• Matthew Zook, Mapping the GeoWeb: The Spatial Contours of Web 2.0 Cyberspace
• Sean Gorman, Can the GeoWeb Get the Public to Care about Geography? The Positive Externalities of a Web Enabled Ecosystem
• Michael Crutcher, Placemarks and Waterlines: Racialized Cyberscapes in Post Katrina Google Earth
• Richard Tomlinson, The Influence of Google on Urban Policy in Developing
• Countries
• Michael F. Goodchild, Discussant
  

Note, we have not decided quite yet on the planned running order of
presentations.

A list of the paper abstracts is here.