danielbrownstein
danielbrownstein
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I examine maps from print to the web, from early modern Europe to the present. I attend to formal and symbolic roles of maps as media in the blog, from use of maps in data visualizations to the rhetoric and poetics of mapping across different media. All of my posts are free and open to all, but I accept donations from readers who find them of use.
This blog developed from interest in the transformation of the materiality of the map in web-based platforms. My investigations of news maps and other web-maps have revealed surprising continuities in the mapping of borders, oceans, and territoriality that have encouraged the blog, and I'm glad for your attention. Musings on Maps adopts a broad perspective on the pursues the materiality of maps and the visual attention that they invite, moving between historical of cartography as a form of data visualization to examine each as a situated practice. My blog offers historical perspectives on maps as crafted arguments.
I have taught cultural history at several institutions--UCLA, California College of the Arts, and UC Berkeley. My blog began from belief in the benefits public resource on map scholarship and online resources about maps to engage widespread interest in cartographical images: the multi-volume series on maps produced by University of Chicago press offers a standard for the intersection of librarianship and scholarship, but the absence of interactivity or dynamic images in the volumes is a liability of its static paper format. Since the chapters and discussion of maps are often trapped in analytic narrative they did not make--often teleological in nature--they are limited as public resources and points of engagement. My blog seeks to create a platform of the blog seeks to engage growing scholarly and non-scholarly interests in the map as a medium through both high-resolution color images and links to scholarship and valuable online source materials, to explore relations between printed maps and digital technologies.
Musings on Maps has been included among "Fifty Blogs for Journalists and by Journalists" (2014 and 2015), as well as in the valuable reading list Small Data Journalism.
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