Geovisualization

and DD in TIC

Britta Ricker, PhD

Assistant Professor

@bricker0

Western Maryland

Exchange Student: The Netherlands

Positionality/CV (2004-now)

MapQuest Cartographer Intern 2004
Made maps for FEMA 2005-2007

(Almost went to Utrecht but instead...)Masters of Science McGill University - Participatory Mapping in Barbados
PhD Simon Fraser University - mHealth and VGI

Teaching

Co-Founded and Developed the

Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies

UU - Environmental Impact Assessment

Pathways to Sustainability

Environmental Science Courses

Research

Cartography

Open Data

Augmenting missing data

Conceptual Framework

ideas that motivate my work

Maps = Power

Waldseemüller map 1507

Knowledge Politics

Political Power

"...knowledge politics to be shaped by deeply institutionalized tendencies in planning and policy making to grant greater weight to knowledge expressed as quantitative data or represented in cartographic forms."

Data Driven Decision Making

(Elwood & Leszczynski, 2012: 545)

GIS and spatial media

(Ricker, 2017)

Maps --> Media

Applied

Quantitative

Theory

Qualitative

Spatial Media

Elwood & Leszczynski (2012) New spatial media, new knowledge politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (38): 544-559.

"Mediums or channels that extend our ability to interact with and create geographic information online" p 544

"From expert to everyday"

(Elwood & Leszczynski, 2012)

"moment of translation

transforming experiential, testimonial and qualitative forms of knowledge into quantitative aggregated or abstracted forms" (Elwood & Leszczynski , 2012: 548)