Conference on Geographic Information and Society to be held at the University of Minnesota; June 20-22, 1999

地理信息与社会会议将在明尼苏达大学举行；

• 批准号: 9907904
• 负责人: Eric Sheppard
• 金额: $ 0.5万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-05-01 至 1999-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9907904&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Geographic; Information; Society; held

This conference on 'Geographic Information and Society' will be the first in a series of international conferences targeted broadly at researchers in academic disciplines engaging GIS-related activities, as well as practitioners in community organizations, government, and industry. The motivation for such a conference series derives from an evolving recognition, spurred by academic debates over the past decade, that there are societal and theoretical implications of how people, space, and environment are represented within a geographical information system (GIS). Specifically, GISs tend to embed a powerful, yet limited, conceptualization of Cartesian space (i.e., an inert, three-dimensional spatial reference framework) deep into the practices that surround their applications. This perspective does not easily allow the realistic representation of such contextually rich and societally mediated concepts such as poverty, place, race, or neighborhood. In this way, complex constructs are simplified and reduced to rigid, geometric categorizations (points, lines, and bounded areas) simply to accommodate the limitations of the technology. The inherent danger is that geographic and social meanings may be misconstrued or misrepresented, and yet, these communicated meanings form the foundation for urban and environmental planning and for political and social practices. These specific concerns regarding GIS follow on earlier ideas presented at specialist workshops conducted under the auspices of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, and they are part of a larger engagement of the implications of information technologies for future societies in general. The conference will facilitate the exchange of ideas and catalyze further research on topics such as the ethical and legal aspects of GIS, uses and value of geographic information, grassroots organizations and access to information technologies, geographic representation of societal phenomena, and the ethics of geographically targeted marketing practices. The award will be directed exclusively to facilitating the involvement of graduate students in the conference and will not be used to underwrite other portions of the conference.

这次关于“地理信息与社会”的会议将是一系列国际会议中的第一次，广泛面向从事地理信息系统相关活动的学术学科研究人员，以及社区组织、政府和行业的从业人员。这样一个系列会议的动机源于一个不断发展的认识，在过去十年的学术辩论的刺激下，在地理信息系统（GIS）中如何表示人、空间和环境具有社会和理论意义。具体来说，GISs倾向于将一个强大但有限的笛卡尔空间概念化（即，一个惰性的三维空间参考框架）深入到围绕其应用的实践中。这种观点不容易允许对诸如贫困、地方、种族或邻里等具有丰富背景和社会中介的概念进行现实表现。通过这种方式，复杂的构造被简化为刚性的几何分类（点、线和有界区域），只是为了适应技术的局限性。固有的危险是地理和社会意义可能被误解或歪曲，然而，这些传达的意义构成了城市和环境规划以及政治和社会实践的基础。这些关于地理信息系统的具体问题是在国家地理信息和分析中心主持下举行的专家研讨会上提出的早期想法的基础上提出的，它们是信息技术对一般未来社会的影响的更大参与的一部分。会议将促进思想的交流，促进对诸如地理信息系统的伦理和法律方面、地理信息的使用和价值、基层组织和获取信息技术、社会现象的地理代表以及地理定位营销实践的伦理等主题的进一步研究。该奖项将专门用于促进研究生参与会议，不会用于资助会议的其他部分。