Geograhic Information Systems
Unifying Theory/Methodology for Journalism and the Social Sciences?
Presented by Geographic Information Science Center; UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism; Pacific Neighborhood Consortium; Human Rights Center and Berkeley Center for the Information Society
Lecture by: John T. Johnson, Professor, San Francisco State University Jounalism Department
Discussant: William Drummond, Professor, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The digital revolution has spawned the third great era in how humanity records, stores, retrieves, analyzes and communicates data and information. The sudden availability of digital hardware, software and publicly accessible data is demanding that journalists and all social scientists look at the world and its phenomena with new information-and knowledge-making tools. Geographic Information Systems (Science?) is one of the most powerful of those new tools. Its potential suggests coming intellectual and conceptual changes far beyond fast maps and easy driving directions, changes that could dramatically modify journalism and even democracy itself.
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April 17, 2003
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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