Jim Thatcher

TL;DR: In this article, the authors define big data as both a sociotechnical and epistemic project with regard to spatial information, and present the field of geographic information science as a useful guide in dealing with the hard work of theory necessary in the big data movement.

TL;DR: Even as the meeting ‘revisited’ critical GIS, it offered neither recapitulation nor reification of a fixed field, but repetition with difference, suggesting that any strict definition of GIS is necessarily delimiting, carving out ontologically privileged status that necessarily silences one set of voices in favor of another.

TL;DR: In the context of climate change and concerns about fossil fuels, territories around the world are being remapped for their renewable energy generation potential, and the resulting maps are shown to potential investors in efforts to accelerate and direct the rapidly growing flow of capital into the renewable energy sector as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors argue that some such methods have not always been and need not be so allied, and suggest neglected methods to revisit, new alliances to be forged with critical human geography and cultural critique, and possible paths to enliven geographical imaginations.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of interviews conducted with mobile application designers and developers, the creation of a digital commodity termed "location" is described. But the authors focus on three discursive poles: its storing of space and time as digital data object manipulable by code, its spatial and temporal immediacy, and its ability to "add value" or "tell a story" to both end-users and marketers.