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Participate When Mapping Realities

Participate When Mapping Realities

Gilbert Ahamer, Thomas Jekel, Robert Vogler
Copyright: © 2010 |Volume: 12 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 26
ISSN: 1548-7717|EISSN: 1548-7725|EISBN13: 9781609609061|DOI: 10.4018/jcit.2010070107
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Ahamer, Gilbert, et al. "Participate When Mapping Realities." JCIT vol.12, no.3 2010: pp.100-125. http://doi.org/10.4018/jcit.2010070107

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Ahamer, G., Jekel, T., & Vogler, R. (2010). Participate When Mapping Realities. Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT), 12(3), 100-125. http://doi.org/10.4018/jcit.2010070107

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Ahamer, Gilbert, Thomas Jekel, and Robert Vogler. "Participate When Mapping Realities," Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT) 12, no.3: 100-125. http://doi.org/10.4018/jcit.2010070107

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Abstract

Tools for recording individual perspectives of realities have long constituted the guiding theme for geographers. In this article, the “bird’s eye” view resides within the spectator of complex socio-economic realities. The cases presented in this paper show the practical contributions of IT, especially of e-learning platforms and of Geographic Information Science and Systems, in facilitating the exchange of fact-based concepts for the construction of social spaces and spaces of understanding. Societal learning can enlarge and approximate spaces of understanding. Social spaces are a type of “social capital”. Learning changes interdisciplinary realities (“n”) seen through the lenses of interculturally diverse understanding (“m”), hence it constitutes a m:n type of “mapping perceptions” that successfully facilitates consensus finding.

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