Posted April 16, 2003 April 17, 2003 - GIS: Unifying Theory/Methodology for Journalism and the Social Sciences
April 17
3:30 pm, Krouzian Room, Bancroft Library
The Geographic Information Science Center
and UC Berkeley School of Journalism
present
"GIS: Unifying Theory/Methodology for Journalism and the
Social Sciences?"
John T. Johnson, San Francisco State University
Discussant: Professor William Drummond,
UC Berkeley 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 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.
Sponsors:
Geographic Information Science Center
School of Journalism
Pacific Neighborhood Consortium
Human Rights Center
Berkeley Center for the Information Society
Contact: cari@uclink.berkeley.edu
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