Digital Geographies

This textbook explores how digital technologies are transforming geography, addressing key themes and practices within the field. Digital Geographies serves as a vital resource for students and scholars alike.

This textbook provides a comprehensive and contemporary overview of the ways in which digital devices, logics, and methods are reshaping the field of geography. As digital technologies increasingly permeate daily life, influencing activities such as work, travel, consumption, and leisure, their impact on geographical phenomena becomes more significant. Topics of interest to geographers include the production of space, spatiality, mobilities, and the evolving practices of mapping, all of which are examined through the lens of digital transformation.

The book delves into the distinct geographies of digital media, encompassing the internet, gaming, and social media, which have become essential to geographic scholarship and practice across various sub-disciplines. It highlights how these digital landscapes influence spatial knowledge and politics, offering insights into the formation and enactment of spatial knowledge politics. Each chapter is enriched by contributions from esteemed instructors and researchers, ensuring a well-rounded perspective on the subject matter.

Digital Geographies is structured into six interconnected sections: an introduction to digital geographies, digital spaces, digital methods, digital cultures, digital economies, and digital politics. This organization allows for a thorough exploration of the interplay between geography and digital technologies, making it an ideal resource for courses focused on digital geographies, new media, and the spatial dimensions of politics.