A political economic critique of google maps and google earth

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 909-928

  Lee, Micky ^a  

^a SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercialization of space; Google earth; Google maps; Political economy; Remotesensing satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956248546     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180903456520     Document Type: Article

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