Uneven Geographies of User-Generated Information: Patterns of Increasing Informational Poverty

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 746-764

  Graham, Mark ^a   Hogan, Bernie ^a   Straumann, Ralph K ^a   Medhat, Ahmed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

geographies of knowledge; geoweb; Internet geography; representation; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

CORE-PERIPHERY RELATIONS; DEMOCRATIZATION; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; POVERTY;

EID: 84903447263     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.910087     Document Type: Article

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