CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Stoianova, Mariia |
|---|---|
| Title | OpenStreetMap: The Meaning of Being Involved in Mapping and Navigation |
| Summary | This paper discusses the collaborative production of ‘standard’ cartographic knowledge and the way it inflects functionality and perception of a traditional map. The ethnographical investigation of the “OpenStreetMap” wiki-style mapping project is in the core of the discussion. The analysis of motivations and mapping practices of the volunteers opens the possibility to see how the ‘standard’ cartographic form can be re-appropriated by investments of the ‘embodied’ and ‘local’ knowledge. At the same time the fact of the possibility to re-appropriate retrieves the abstract and objectifying form of the traditional cartography as it finds itself compatible with emotional and cognitive engagements. |
| Supervisor | Naumescu, Vlad |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/stoianova_mariia.pdf |
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