Abstract
The live outdoor webcam seems inseparable from the mid-1990s' popular proliferation of the Internet. Combining a well-known medium, i.e. the photograph, with a new one, i.e. the Internet, the live outdoor webcam seems in the rear-view mirror to have contributed significantly to the popular perception of the Internet as a globally distended and thus "geographical" medium. Moreover, due to its role in the NASA Triana mission, the never-realised flagship of the Clinton-Gore administration's Digital Earth project, the live webcam seemed to play an important part in the construction of what leading geographers coined a "virtual geography"-the geography of the Internet, and the networked geography-that sought to establish itself as a new field of study during the late 1990s. In order to substantiate for this interpretation, I would like in the first part of this article to identify a number of basic characteristics of the outdoor webcam and, in the second, to analyse and discuss two papers written by leading scholars in the field; papers which have been important in the assessment of the impact of the Internet and geographical information systems (GIS) before the scientific community as well as policy makers within technological innovation and the public sector.
Udgivelsesdato: 1. december 2009
Udgivelsesdato: 1. december 2009
Original language | English |
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Journal | Knowledge Technology and Policy |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 5 |
Pages (from-to) | 181-189. |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISSN | 1946-4789 |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- Live outdoor webcams
- World Wide Web (WWW)
- Tele-presence
- Geographic information systems (GIS)
- Cybernetics
Artistic research
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