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Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance

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  • Sandra Jeppesen

    (Media, Film, and Communications Program, Lakehead University, Canada)

  • Paola Sartoretto

    (School of Education and Communication (HLK), Jönköping University, Sweden)

Abstract

This thematic issue shares research that critically analyzes counter-mapping undertaken by community groups who appropriate, collect, and utilize counter-datasets to unveil and reshape spatial realities. The articles consider a range of multidimensional sociotechnical cartographic practices, including the politics embedded in various uses of representation, visualization, interactivity, and cartographic imaginaries, framing counter data mapping as communicative practices of resistance. They deepen our understanding of how counter-mapping can be understood as a sociotechnical communicative practice through which communities inhabiting marginalized and vulnerable positions have collectively mobilized the affordances of mapping technologies to both visibilize and contest the root causes and consequences of marginalization. Scholars here consider how counter-mapping is embedded in notions of spatiality and relationality, probing dimensions of analysis that include data sourcing, objectives, capacities, processes, collaborations, ownership, strategic invisibility, and so on, providing evidence of the emerging importance of sociotechnical multidimensionality in the production and cartopolitics of community counter-maps.

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  • Sandra Jeppesen & Paola Sartoretto, 2026. "Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 14.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:meanco:v14:y:2026:a:11980
    DOI: 10.17645/mac.11980
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    1. Sandra Jeppesen & Paola Sartoretto, 2023. "Cartographies of Resistance: Counter-Data Mapping as the New Frontier of Digital Media Activism," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 11(1), pages 150-162.
    2. Sandra Jeppesen & Paola Sartoretto, 2023. "Cartographies of Resistance: Counter-Data Mapping as the New Frontier of Digital Media Activism," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 11(1), pages 150-162.
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