From Spaceship Earth to Google Ocean: Planetary Icons, Indexes, and Infrastructures
What sort of image does the planet Earth possess at the opening of the 21st century? If in the 1960s, the Whole Earth, the planet as seen from space, became a cold war, proto-environmentalist icon for a fragile ocean planet, in the 2010s, Google Earth, the globe encountered as a manipulable virtual...
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Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School University
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72176 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0859-5881 |