Martin Dodge
Position: Lecturer in Human Geography
BA, MSc
Room Number: 1.051 [Arthur Lewis Building]
Tel: +44(0)161 275 3622
Fax: +44(0)161 275 7878
Email: m.dodge@manchester.ac.uk
Personal website
Specific research interests
My Research Blog has the most current information.
The area of research I am developing over the next few years concerns the broad relationships between digital technologies and the production of space; what might be termed the geographies of code. Mapping provides a critical interpretative lens through which I will work. I see three inter-linked, strands to this.
Mapping "software spaces and software in space"
Critically exploring the socio-spatial implications of pervasive computing and software embedding in cities through the concept of code/space. The goal is to expose the extent of the power of software in the automatic production of urban space, the regulation of social lives and emerging risks through complex human-code dependencies. The end goal is to try to develop a novel theoretical framework for the technological production of space that is empirically grounded, non-deterministic and open to performative views of everyday spatial practices.
Mapping "surveillance and securitisation"
Critically examining the urban assemblages of tagging and tracking surveillance technologies that are producing new, casual regimes of positional knowledge about people, objects, information and transactions. I want to understand the technical potentials, the social meanings and the political discourses that drive the deployment of new layers of geo-surveillance. An important element in this will be consideration of new modes of software-enabled identification and ‘sorting’ of people and places. As well as thinking about the political implications, in terms of privacy, exclusion and discrimination, of new means of ‘data mining’ and visualising the increasingly detailed spatial ‘pheromone trails’ of (near) whole populations.
Mapping the "personal data shadow"
At the individual level, I want to consider the spatial patterning of the ‘data shadows’ that envelop us from our consumption activities and daily mobilities.
Books
Dodge M, McDerby M, Turner M (eds.), 2008, Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications (John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, England).
Dodge M, Kitchin R, 2005, Mapping Cyberspace, Chinese language translation (Weber, Taiwan).
Dodge M, Kitchin R, 2001, Atlas of Cyberspace (Addison-Wesley, London).
Dodge M, Kitchin R, 2000, Mapping Cyberspace (Routledge, London).
Journal articles
Dodge M, Perkins C, 2008, “Reclaiming the Map: British Geography and Ambivalent Cartographic Practice”, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 40, No. 6, 1271-76.
Kitchin R, Dodge M, 2007, “Rethinking Maps”, Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 31, No. 3, pages 331-344.
Dodge M, Kitchin R, 2007, “‘Outlines of a World Coming in Existence’: Pervasive Computing and the Ethics of Forgetting”, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Vol. 34, No. 3, pages 431-445.
Dodge M, Kitchin R, 2007, “The Automatic Management of Drivers and Driving Spaces”, Geoforum, Vol. 38, No. 2, pages 264-275.
Kitchin R, Dodge M, 2006, “Software and the Mundane Management of Air Travel”, First Monday, Command Lines: The Emergence of Governance in Cyberspace special issue, Vol. 7, No. 9.
Dodge M. and Kitchin R, 2005, “Codes of Life: identification codes and the machine-readable world”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 23, No.6, pages 851-881.
Dodge M, Kitchin R, 2005, “Code and the transduction of space” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 95, No. 1, pages 162-180.
Dodge M, Kitchin R, 2004, “Flying Through Code/space: The Real Virtuality of Air Travel”, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 36, No. 2, pages 195-211.
Kitchin R M, Dodge M, 2001, “ 'Placing' Cyberspace: Why Geography Still Matters”, Information Technology, Education and Society, Vol. 1, No. 2, pages 25-46.
Brunn S, Dodge M, 2001, “Mapping the 'Worlds' of the World-Wide Web: (Re)Structuring Global Commerce Through Hyperlinks”, American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 44, No. 10, pages 1717-1739.
Dodge M. and Kitchin R, 2000, ‘Exposing the '‘second text’ of maps of the Net’, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 5, No. 4.
Book chapters
Kitchin R. Dodge M, 2008, ‘Cybergeography’, in Kemp K.K. (ed) Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science (Sage).
Dodge M, Jayne M, MacKian S, Perkins C, Smyth F., 2007, ‘EBL from the very first day: Developing new senses of place’, in Case-studies: CEEBL-Supported Projects, 2006-7 (CEEBL, University of Manchester), pages 71-88.
Dodge M, Kitchin R, 2006, ‘Virtual places’, in Douglas I, Huggett R, Perkins C (eds) Companion Encyclopedia of Geography, 2nd Edition (Routledge, New York), pages 519-536.
Dodge M, Kitchin R, 2006,‘Spatialising cyberspace', from Mapping Cyberspace, reprinted in Bell D (ed) Cyberculture: Key Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies (Routledge, London), Vol. 2, chapter 28, pages 107-128.
Dodge M, Kitchin R, 2006, ‘Net:geography fieldwork frequently asked questions’, in Weiss J, Nolan J, Trifonas P, Nincic V, Hunsinger J, (eds) The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments (Springer, Netherlands), pages 1143-1172.
Dodge M, 2005, ‘The role of maps in virtual research methods’, in Hine C (ed) Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet (Berg Publishers, Oxford).
Zook M, Dodge M, Aoyama Y, Townsend A, 2004, 'New digital geographies: information, communication, and place’, in Brunn S D, Cutter S L, Harrington J W (eds) Geography and Technology (Kluwer, New York), pages 155-176.
Dodge M, Kitchin R, 2004, ‘Charting movement: Mapping Internet infrastructure’, in Hanley R E (ed) Moving People, Goods, and Information in the 21st Century (Routledge, New York), pages 159-185.
Dodge M, 2004, ‘Geographies of e-commerce: The case of Amazon.com’, in Graham S (ed) The Cybercities Reader (Routledge, London), pages 221-225.
Kitchin R, Dodge M, 2002, ‘Exploring the emerging geographies of cyberspace’, in Johnston R., Taylor P. and Watts M. (eds.), Geographies of Global Change (Blackwell, Oxford), pages 340-354.
Dodge M, 2001, ‘Explorations in AlphaWorld: The geography of 3D virtual worlds on the Internet’, in Unwin D. and Fisher P. (eds.), Virtual Reality in Geography (Taylor and Francis, London), pages 305.330.
Dodge M. and Kitchin R., 2001, ‘Virtual reality, space and geographic visualisation’, in Unwin D. and Fisher P. (eds.), Virtual Reality in Geography, (Taylor and Francis, London), pages 341-361.
Dodge M., 2001, ‘Finding the source of Amazon.com: Examining the store with the Earth's biggest selection’, in Leinbach T.R. and Brunn S.D. (eds.), Worlds of E-Commerce: Economic, Geographical and Social Dimensions, (John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK), pages 167-180.
Dodge M., 2000, ‘Accessibility to information within the Internet: How can it be measured and mapped?’, in Janelle D.G. and Hodge D.C. (eds.), Information, Place, and Cyberspace, (Springer, Berlin), pages 187-204.
Dodge M. and Shiode N., 2000, ‘'Where on Earth is the Internet? An empirical investigation of the geography of Internet real estate’, in Wheeler J.O., Aoyama Y. and Warf B. (eds.), Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing of Geographies, (Routledge, New York), pages 42-53.
Dodge M., 2000, ‘Mapping the world-wide web’, in Rogers R. (ed.), Preferred Placement: Knowledge Politics on the Web, (Jan van Eyck Akademie, Netherlands), pages 81-98.