Resource: Hypercities

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Lexicon
   1. HyperCities
   2. Thick Mapping
   3. Digital Humanities
2. The Humanities in the Digital Humanities
   1. HyperCities: A Very Brief History
   2. Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities
3. Windows
   1. Lost Angeles Ghost Maps
   2. PDub Productions: Mapping HiFi
4. The View from Above / Below
   1. Toward a Media Archaeology of Google Earth
   2. Counter-Mapping
   3. Georeferencing: "It is turtles all the way down"
5. Windows
   1. Rome: Jumping over the Line
   2. Mapping the 2009 Election Protests in Tehran
6. Mapping Events / Mapping Social Media
   1. Participatory Digital Humanities
   2. On the Event: HyperCities Now (Egypt, Libya, Japan)
7. Gallery: A Journey through Tohoku, Japan

Review

• The second half of the book focuses a lot on modern mapping examples, with a focus on social media. Not sure that this will be relevant for me.
• "The View from Above / Below" seems to have an interesting discussion of projections and people's relationships with and desires for maps.
• Useful theory can be taken from the first couple chapters.
• Should check Endnotes for further reading