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Il 08/02/2011 03:33 PM, Anne Ghisla ha scritto:
> Call for Papers
> Proposed Special Issue of /Antipode /
> The Politics of Participatory and Crowd-sourced Knowledge Production
>
> Over the last several decades, the purported objectivity of maps has
> been extensively interrogated. Beneath a veneer of neutrality, we see
> that maps are actually social expressions, forged from frequently
> contested geographic knowledge. While laudable moves toward
> participatory mapping in the early 1990s sought to include diverse
> constituents, more recent studies have turned a critical eye upon the
> participatory nature of these endeavors. Tracking developments in both
> web services and software programs, mapping and spatial data production
> have skyrocketed in popularity due to the geospatial web (“geoweb”),
> such as Google’s suite of proprietary programs, and open-source
> alternatives such as OpenStreetMap. However, while both proprietary and
> open-source systems might increase public engagement with participatory
> mapping, these systems rest on diametrically opposed value sets
> concerning the production and dissemination of geographic knowledge.
> Debate has begun to rage among academics and practitioners concerning
> the ethical implications of these various software platforms. This
> special issue seeks to provide a window into these debates and the
> changing face of participatory mapping.
> Articles are requested for publication in a special issue journal of
> /Antipode/. Papers should not exceed 9,500 words, inclusive of endnotes,
> references, etc. Articles should be based on research with these data
> management systems, but also engage with larger theoretical questions,
> including but not limited to:
> 1. How do different mapping platforms differ epistemologically and
> practically, from both academic and end-user perspectives?
> 2. How might or might not these differences impact public participatory
> mapping activities, and a participatory ethic writ large?
> 3. What roles should data ownership for marginalized communities take
> within these platforms? Who benefits from current data ownership
> policies, and how are these concerns implicated in these mapping platforms?
> 4. Do these differing approaches to geographic knowledge ownership
> inform the types of knowledge that should be produced in any of these
> platforms?
>
> _Timeline_
>
>     *
>       Submission of Abstracts and Author bio- *August 15*^*th* *2011*
>     *
>       Notification concerning inclusion in proposed special issue*-
>       Sept. 1*^*st* *2011*
>     *
>       Submission of papers-*March 1st 2012 *
>     *
>       Publication-*2013*