1. Martin Dodge CASA & Department of Geography, University College London Martin Dodge CASA & Department of Geography, University College London Background and Research Interests Background and Research Interests

2. Who, where, what ? researcher lecturer in geography social geography, computing, GIS technology, space & society Current research: –geographies of cyberspace –pervasive computing and code Future research: –urban geo-surveillance –individual ‘data shadows’ and privacy

3. Current Research: Cybergeography Infrastructures, demographics, discourses –measurement, challenging the ‘death of distance’ Mapping the wires, the information and the people –network maps, information spatialization, social visualisation –critical cartography - power of maps, semiotics, discourses –PhD : Mapping stories focused on the ‘workability’ and ‘imaginability’ of Internet’s technical geography networking knowledge about cybergeography –website, mailing lists, online publications & talks to diverse audiences, books, editorial boards

4. Understanding the maps of cyberspace > map curator; map critique > collecting, > classifying, > interpreting, > evaluating, > communicating defining a field; fascinating diversity; almost all done outside cartography / geography form and function; workability of map; typology building map biography, agenda of the map-makers informing different groups about each other - library science, network engineering, artists, information design, HCI, geography/cartography

5. ‘Pictures’‘Words’ ‘Links’ Key Cybergeography outputs

6. “More and more of the spaces of everyday life come loaded up with software, lines of code that are installing a new kind of automatically reproduced background and whose nature is only now starting to become clear.” (Thrift and French, 2002) Seeking to ‘map’ the nature of code, account for its growth and understand the productive & creative power in the world

7. Current Research: ‘Code/spaces ’ code and the work it does in the production of lived space in urban settings. its not parallel world of the Matrix increasing prevalence of code in things, often mundane spaces are produced through code to varying degrees code/space, coded space, background coded space code/space, the code dominates the production of space, explicitly mediating socio-spatial processes and experience. code explicitly programmed and deployed to produce spatiality code/space - dangers of technological determinism and universalism? but, the way code/spaces actually operate and are experienced is not fixed, as it is embodied through performance - coded practices

8. Code/space analysis so far... ‘Flying through code/space: the real virtuality of air travel’ Environment and Planning A, 2004 ‘Code and the transduction of space ’ Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2005 ‘Pervasive computing and the ethics of forgetting’ Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 2005

9. Future research: ‘Coding the City’ Mapping ‘software spaces and software in space’ extending and deepening across city spaces and code forms (e.g., ‘rogue’ code) different domains of living; historical development; regulatory & organisational structures; visualisation leading to 2 books ‘Code, capture and the mundane management of everyday living ’ AAG Denver (Kitchin) ‘The calculative city’ American Journal of Sociology, in preparation

10. Urban geo-surveillance and securitisation tracking through space-time; tags and identification networks interlocking techno-social assemblages (e.g. mobiles, ANPR, CCTV, id cards) casual regimes of positional knowledge of people, objects and transactions social implications, technical potentials, political discourses, resistance ‘Codes of life: Identification codes and the machine-readable world’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2005 in press

11. Mapping the personal ‘data shadow’ understanding individual ‘data shadows’ - how they grow, where they performs and how they (mis)represent you productive (‘positive’) aspects; resistance data gathered from subject access requests under Data Protection Act going further with Freedom of Information Act as a methodological avenue for gathering data and challenging secrecy in growing public-private data trading

12. Potential teaching contributions convening –Technology and the City [infrastructural /policy / politics; linking to planning / architecture?] –Geographies of Cyberspace [social / culture] –Practical Map-making elements in team-taught ‘Geog101’ and ‘research methods’ (census; ICTs / web; GI for human geography; practical visualisation) fieldwork –digital city auditing; ‘safe city?’