Submitted by matthew-w-wilson on Apr 13, 2009, 01:51 PM
In my dissertation research, I am interested in the mappings of Seattle neighborhoods, conducted by local residents, facilitated by a Seattle nonprofit organization, using mobile technology originally developed by a foundation in New York City.  More diffusely, I write about ?technologies? as both the material hardware and software that grew to prominence in the late 1990s alongside the development of social technologies: indicators that measure quality-of-life, broken windows theories of crime and urban decay, and the training of residents to view their streets in replicable ways.

Submitted by Anaventura on Aug 29, 2008, 10:36 PM

Early cartography was impacted by scientific revolution and enlightenment but also driven by hegemonic forces: our ancestors needed "to know where the 'loot' was and then get back home with it safe and sound" (quoting Dr. Shaowen Wang).

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Apr 15, 2008, 07:59 AM
"Redlining California," a project started by Richard Marciano at the San Diego Supercomputing Center, was previewed at HASTAC's very first gathering in 2003 or 2004. By crunching demographic statistics, guidelines offered by the Federal housing commission back to the 1930s, and global positioning systems, Marciana showed how early policies of discrimination map onto continuing segregation, economic disparity, and poverty in southern California, with implications for the whole country. Come to HASTAC II to see how far this remarkable project, now co-directed by Marciano and David Theo Goldberg, Director of UCHRI and HASTAC co-founder, has progressed and to see what a true collaboration across the humanities, social sciences, and computational sciences can yield. Their maps of then-and-now, prejudice in motion and poverty locked-down, will shock you and break your heart.