{"id":360,"date":"2010-06-23T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2010\/06\/23\/geography-in-the-news-where-am-i\/"},"modified":"2010-06-23T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:42:00","slug":"geography-in-the-news-where-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2010\/06\/23\/geography-in-the-news-where-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography in the News – Where am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I came across this article in the NY Times<\/a> today, albeit a little late (It was published over a year ago), and found it interesting. \u00a0The article is a review of the book “You are Here” by\u00a0Colin Ellard<\/a>. \u00a0The author examines our increasing\u00a0dependence\u00a0on GPS<\/a> and associated mapping technology and\u00a0whether\u00a0it’s diminishing our ability to be spatially aware of where we are.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n


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Examining spatial awareness is not a new concept. \u00a0For other interesting titles on the topic see below:<\/span><\/span>
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You Are Here\u00a0<\/a><\/b>:\u00a0\u00a0Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Katharine Harmon<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Wayfinding behavior<\/a><\/b>\u00a0Cognitive Mapping and Other Spatial Processes<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Reginald G. Golledge<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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So I came across this article in the NY Times today, albeit a little late (It was published over a year ago), and found it interesting. \u00a0The article is a review of the book “You are Here” by\u00a0Colin Ellard. \u00a0The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}