The Map in the Machine
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The Map in the Machine

Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism

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The Map in the Machine

Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism

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Digital technologies have changed how we shop, work, play, and communicate, reshaping our societies and economies. To understand digital capitalism, we need to grasp how advances in geospatial technologies underpin the construction, operation, and refinement of markets for digital goods and services. In The Map in the Machine, Luis F. Alvarez Leon examines these advances, from MapQuest and Google Maps to the rise of IP geolocation, ridesharing, and a new Earth Observation satellite ecosystem. He develops a geographical theory of digital capitalism centered on the processes of location, valuation, and marketization to provide a new vantage point from which to better understand, and intervene in, the dominant techno-economic paradigm of our time. By centering the spatiality of digital capitalism, Alvarez Leon shows how this system is the product not of seemingly intangible information clouds but rather of a vast array of technologies, practices, and infrastructures deeply rooted in place, mediated by geography, and open to contestation and change.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9780520389335
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
IT Industry
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations and Table
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1. Introduction
  8. 2. Assembling the Base Map: From MapQuest to Google Street View
  9. 3. Location, Geolocation, Allocation
  10. 4. Eyes in the Sky and the Digital Planet
  11. 5. People, Platforms, and Robots on the Move
  12. Conclusion: The Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism and the Power of Place
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index