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Nobel Prize winners change Geography
by Jenny Lunn The 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics was announced this week. This year it is being shared by three scientists who have helped to transform communications technology. Charles Kao is honoured...
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A Future in the Clouds
By Kate Botterill Charles Leadbetter appeared on Newsnight last week to discuss the future of the Internet. He is the author of a report entitled ‘Cloud Culture: The Future of Global Cultural...
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http://sa-ki.deviantart.com/ By Kelly Wakefield Two historic dates have past within the last year, October 2009 saw the 40th birthday of the Internet and in March 2010 the Internet celebrated the 25th...
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Why Facebook might be good for us
By Kelly Wakefield Earlier this year “How Many Friends Does One Person Need?” was published, written by Robin Dunbar. Currently a Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, the...
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Political Coverage
By Alexander Leo Phillips As I write this I’m watching David Cameron deliver his first Conference speech as Prime Minister. This is naturally a big event for him; not only is it the first time a...
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Geographers and technology (part 2)
By Kelly Wakefield This article follows on from my last article about geographers and technology and is the second part because I am currently on my summer(?) holidays. The first article discussed...
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Why Cartographic Accuracy Still Matters
A cartographic error that nearly started a war between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Benjamin Sacks THE DIGITIZATION of maps in recent years has radically altered how we interact with our world. Such...
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For or against the social network?
by Jayne Glass Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, has warned us this week that social networking is undermining the Web as we know it. He argues that the storage of data behind virtual...
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Facebook connections
By Kelly Wakefield With the film ‘Social Network’ being nominated for six Golden Globes in 2011, Facebook is rarely out of the media or off our screens. The image above, taken from a BBC article...
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Regulating the internet: geographies of cyberspace
By Helen Pallett Image credit: Gflores From the threat of ‘cyber-bullying’ to misogynist abuse, to fears about the invasion of privacy and the accessibility of pornographic material, serious concerns...
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Collecting the Archive: How eBay is Transforming Historical Geography
Kate Whiston, University of Nottingham Source: Wikimedia Commons Imagine a stereotypical historical geographer, waist deep in dusty old books and documents in the darkest depths of a library or museum....
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