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Digital Geography and Society
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ISSN 2666-3783 · Elsevier · 170 articles in the index
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(Re)theorizing the economic geographies of digital platforms: Insights from South Asia
Digital platforms have become important intermediaries in contemporary economies, reshaping how value is created, captured, and distributed spatially. However, theorization of platform economies in economic geography stays geographically uneven. While Western-based models continue to provide…
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The digitalization of urban forest management
New and advancing digital tools not only change how urban forest data is generated, stored, analyzed, and visualized, these tools also reshape the meaning and management of urban forests. To understand how, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 63 urban forestry practitioners in 21 cities…
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From local hacks to global standards: The hidden politics of internet protocols
We analyze the governance of the internet's digital spaces through the lens of protocols and standards: often obscure yet essential social agreements and technical codifications that make the internet ‘work.’ Building on theorizations of “the stack”, we examine how protocols are created…
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It's “really companiony”: An ethnography of making and learning to work with digital collaborators
This paper critically reflects on the process and possibilities of a specially developed digital qualitative research tool – the “Ethnography Journal” app. Although a variety of digital research tools are readily available, this research was specifically interested in understanding the process of…
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Unseen things: Computer vision and the uneven geographies of AI failure
AI computer vision systems are increasingly used to extract spatial information from images, yet their performance remains uneven across object types and geographic contexts. This paper argues that such unevenness is bound up in the production of space itself. Through a critical visual methods…
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Metro Manila's digital infrastructure ecosystem. Insights into critical data centre studies in the majority world
This article contributes to the growing field of critical data centre studies. A key contribution of these debates is to understand data centres as powerful socio-technical assemblages and as an infrastructural foundation of digital worlds. This interdisciplinary research highlights the role of…
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Recombinant wayfinding in the postdigital city: Flânerie, legibility, and sensory cartographies
Urban wayfinding has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last three decades. Driven by digital tools, platforms, and AI, this shift has recast both spatial perception and legibility. Yet recent research fails to address the complexity of the postdigital as a cultural condition, which…
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Digital urbanism and Psychopolitics: Engineered participation in platformed city
This paper develops the concept of the psychopolitical urban condition to explain why participation in digitally mediated cities often persists even when material sanctions, gates, or explicit incentives are weak or absent. It argues that contemporary “cyber cities” are best understood as layered…
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Lay but not Lacking: The collective production of “lay” expertise surrounding the German energy crisis of 2022+
Debates within the geography of knowledge and the sociology of expertise have heretofore often occurred largely independently of one another. Drawing from both bodies of work, the phenomenon of ‘lay’ expertise - that developed by actors not conventionally seen as legitimate experts in a field - is…
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Polarized geoprivacy attitudes on Chinese social media: Evidence from Weibo
This study aims to investigate the spatial-temporal patterns and major themes in Weibo users' discussions surrounding the platform's feature that automatically adds a user's internet protocol-based location to microblog posts and comments. By analyzing user interactions, this research seeks to…
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Everywhere she maps, she changes the discourse: A topic modeling of the gender discourse in YouthMappers blogs
Maps not only extend our knowledge of the world but also may offer empowerment when it comes to marginalized people throughout the Global South. In recent years, mapping has undergone significant democratization through open-source mapping technologies, yet gender discrimination persists. To…
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Google gazes and digital seams: Visual epistemologies between satellite view and Street View
Since Google Earth and Google Street View were launched in 2005 and 2007, they have become embedded in everyday life, captured the imagination of users, and been critically analyzed on numerous fronts. But too often, Street View is overlooked or seen only as an extension of Google Earth and Maps…
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Beyond access: Understanding digital platform adoption in Indonesia's informal economy
This article argues that digital inclusion cannot be understood merely through the lens of access. Instead, the enabling environment is shaped by deeper and often invisible spatial, infrastructural, and algorithmic factors that determine who can participate in the platform economy. Focusing on…
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Electoral politics at the digital dinner table: Intimate online spaces as sites of long-distance citizenship
Focused on how Brazilian migrants experienced the national elections of 2022 through everyday digital practices, this paper engages intimate online spaces as key – yet underexplored – sites for long-distance citizenship. Migration and media scholars have for long examined the infrastructural…
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Uneven development in the platform economy: Stratified immigration policies and uneven access to transnational social protections in North America
How do digital platforms, such as Uber, Amazon, or DoorDash, reterritorialize social protections for immigrant workers at urban, national, and transnational scales? In this paper I show how they function as tools of economic integration, situating interplays between states, markets to generate new…
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The digital K9: Affect, social media, and the projection of the police image
This article examines the role of digital K9s—police dogs turned social media celebrities—in contemporary police image work. As governance becomes increasingly digitalized and police violence becomes more visible online, departments are turning to weaponized canine cuteness to manage their public…
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Racial discrimination in the platform economy: comparative experiences from food delivery riders in London and São Paulo
This article investigates how racial discrimination affects food delivery riders' experiences of work in the platform economy, drawing on qualitative case studies in London and São Paulo. Based on 58 interviews, it shows that while platform companies portray themselves as neutral intermediaries…
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PropTech goes wild: Hunting access platforms and the neo liberalization of rural land relations
Scholars are increasingly interested in the role digital technologies play in shaping access to, the management of, and relationships to the environment. This paper contributes to these discussions by examining hunting access platforms, a suite of online marketplaces that facilitate the sale of…
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Digitally-mediated territorial imaginations: A deep learning approach to characterize online images of contested territories and place names
Today, people increasingly absorb information about places from online images of locations they have never been to. In the context of contested territories, online images serve as a medium for imagining territories. However, online images of contested territories, just like any other type of…
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“If the rating is high enough, I don't bother going into place details” - an exploration of digital platforms' users experiences of digital place representation
Accessibility and pervasiveness of digital platforms have made them a prism of human everyday experience. These experiences are constructed through user-generated content (UGC), which becomes a highly relevant source of information and a significant factor influencing humans' perceptions and…