Google and the Internet: A Mega-Project Nesting Within Another Mega-Project

Paradiso, Maria

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“…This paper continues a reflexive understanding of Google (Paradiso 2011) and in particular of Google Maps (Zook & Graham 2007), focusing on the Google Maps service applied to the empirical case of the Italian medium‐sized university city of Benevento, and two other university cities, Bologna and Siena; and interprets it through a three‐level benchmarking of information listing generated by web queries of localised services: the Google geocoded Internet and sense of place (a global scale and player), a pre‐Google national service (Italian Yellow Pages 892424, a national company and international player), and local tacit knowledge (vernacular word‐of‐mouth and direct experience via a panelist discussion).…”

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“…The Internet itself can no longer be considered just as the most comprehensive information system (as defined by Kellerman 2002), having connotations of ‘codified’ knowledge and communication. Rather the Internet has become a ‘Mega Project on Earth’, thanks to the ‘meganess’ of Google, which thus becomes the most comprehensive information and communication system on Earth (Paradiso 2011). Cyberspace may possibly become a universal rather than just a metropolitan phenomenon if there are opportunities for access (Castells, 1996).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Benchmarking the Quality of Geoweb: Information and Tacit Knowledge About Restaurants in Three Italian Cities

Paradiso¹

2012

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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If information and communication technologies are contributing to the attenuation of the force of destiny towards opportunities for individuals and places, then some applications, together with practices of ranking, mapping and delivering the representation of place will be concerned with how codes or practices in cyberspace negatively or positively shape our world. This paper examines the quality of geo-web information from 'Google maps' applied to the empirical case of the Italian cities of Benevento, Bologna and Siena. It interprets data using a three-level benchmarking of information-listing generated by web queries of localised services: the Google geocoded Internet, Yellow Pages, and tacit knowledge. The implications of the on-line/off-line visibility of local enterprises for local development actions, and the implications of hidden filters and ranking within the framework of the contemporary global information society will be outlined. Furthermore, an assessment model of the 'geoquality' of geocoded Internet spatial information is developed.

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Benchmarking the Quality of Geoweb: Information and Tacit Knowledge About Restaurants in Three Italian Cities

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2012

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“…In that sense, I argue that studying those mappings may inform the research on alternative economies about emerging ontologies and vocabularies used to describe emerging forms of economic activity that may differ from those used by Google, the dominant and global device of complexity that impacts the way people assign meaning to the world (Paradiso, 2011). In addition, mappings of urban assets bring visibility to untapped public resources which can be leveraged to develop new forms of community economies.…”

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La cartographie collaborative des économies alternatives: co-produire une connaissance transformative

Labaeye¹

2017

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“…Figure 5 Conventional method [11] For the structural bonding system is the method where the LPS cable concealed within the reinforced concrete structure as been shown in Figure 6. In this method, the air termination system will be connected with the lightning protection system embedded in the reinforcement steel bars in the concrete column, ground beam and pad footing before discharge to the earth.…”

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Lightning Protection System in Malaysia: Materials Selection for Down Conductor

2016

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Lightning is a natural phenomenon that cannot be prevented, therefore the specific system need to be installed in the building to reduce or eliminate the impact of lightning flash and safely discharge to the ground. The country along the equator including Africa, South America and Southern Asia received the highest number of lightning. Malaysia experienced in average of 100 to 140 days of lightning and 600000 to 1300000 number of lightning flash per year. This research is conducted to identify the materials selection for the lightning protection system especially the down conductor cable. Several projects around Malaysia had been selected for this purpose. From the research, they are two types of lightning protection system commonly implemented in Malaysian buildings; the conventional method and structural bonding method. It was found that 23 % of the projects used structural bonding method, mostly from the government projects, and 77% of the projects used conventional method. For the down conductor cable selection, the conventional method used the copper and aluminium tape. And for the structural bonding method the galvanized steel iron was used as the down conductor cable.

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Google and the Internet: A Mega-Project Nesting Within Another Mega-Project

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

Benchmarking the Quality of Geoweb: Information and Tacit Knowledge About Restaurants in Three Italian Cities

Benchmarking the Quality of Geoweb: Information and Tacit Knowledge About Restaurants in Three Italian Cities

La cartographie collaborative des économies alternatives: co-produire une connaissance transformative

Lightning Protection System in Malaysia: Materials Selection for Down Conductor

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