2007 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California Online Program

Paper Session: 3512 Google Earth as the 'view from nowhere': the spatial politics of high resolution satellite imagery II is scheduled on Thursday, 4/19/07, from 3:00 PM - 4:40 PM in Franciscan C, SF Hilton Sponsorship(s): Communication Geography Specialty Group Organizer(s): Martin Dodge Chris Perkins Chair(s): Chris Perkins Abstract(s):   3:00 PM   Author(s): Paul Kingsbury - Simon Fraser University *John Paul Jones - University of Arizona  Abstract Title: Beyond Apollo and Adorno: Dionysus and Walter Benjamin on Google Earth 3:20 PM   Author(s): *Stéphane Roche, 1 - Université Laval  Abstract Title: Deconstructing Google Earth's images with the Spatiograph 3:40 PM   Author(s): *Anders Wästfelt -  Abstract Title: Continuous landscapes in finite space - analysis of remote sensed images as a source in social science. 4:00 PM   Author(s): *Francis Harvey - University of Minnesota - Minneapolis  Abstract Title: Nowhere is everywhere? Towards post-modernist ubiquitous computing-based geographic communication 4:20 PM   Discussant: Jeremy Crampton - Georgia State University   Discussant(s): Jeremy Crampton - Georgia State University Session Description: Google Earth, and various internet portals, offer ubiquitous high-resolution satellite imagery at unprecedented detail to a global audience through simple interfaces. The capabilities and technical beauty of Google Earth, in particular, has garnered wide spread praise and a rapidly growing fan-base. Given this impact, now is an apposite time for considered reflection on exactly what can been seen with satellite imagery and thinking through the spatial politics of newly accessible images of the world.

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