In other words, the paper comprehensively shows one important facet of contemporary information geographies: that geographic information itself is characterised by a host of uneven geographies. Through this effort, the paper demonstrates that in addition to the geographies of uneven access to contemporary modes of communication, uneven geographies of participation and representation are also evident and in some cases are being amplified rather than alleviated.
It does so using a combination of existing statistics and bespoke data not previously mapped or analysed. The paper offers a deliberately broad survey of a range of key platforms that mediate, host, and deliver different types of geographic information. This paper therefore explores how information geographies have their own geographic distributions: geographies of access, of participation, and of representation. This fusing of the spatial and informational augmentations that are immutable means that annotations of place emerge as sites of political contestation: with different groups of people trying to impose different narratives on informational augmentations.
In other words, geographic augmentations are much more than just representations of places: they are part of the place itself they shape it rather than simply reflect it. Places invisible or discounted in representations are invisible in practice to many people. These geographies of information about places matter because they shape how we are able to find and understand different parts of the world.
It is from somewhere about somewhere it evolves and is transformed somewhere it is mediated by networks, infrastructures, and technologies: all of which exist in physical, material places.
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