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The phrase "Global South" marks a shift from a focus on development or cultural difference toward an emphasis on geopolitical power relations. Nour Dados and Raewyn Connell demystify and contextualize this term.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: About Space as a Media Product -- Part I Cartographies -- 1. Mapping Empire: Knowledge Production and Government in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire -- 2. Who Maps Middle Eastern Geographies in the Digital Age? Inequalities in Web 2.0 Cartographies in Israel/Palestine -- 3. Taking the Battle to Cyberspace : Delineating Borders and Mapping Identities in Western Sahara -- 4. Wargaming the Middle East: The Evolution of Simulated Battlefields from Chequerboards to Virtual Worlds and Instrumented Artificial Cities -- Part II Movements -- 5. Iranian Internet Cinema, a Cinema of Embodied Protest : Imperfect, Amateur, Small, Unauthorized, Global -- 6. From Amateur Video to New Documentary Formats : Citizen Journalism and a Reconfiguring of Historical Knowledge -- 7. Cinematic Spaces of 'the Arab Street' : Mohamed Diab's Inverted Road Movie Clash (2016) -- 8. Body-Space-Relation in Parkour : Street Practices and Visual Representations -- 9. Mediated Narratives of Syrian Refugees : Mapping Victim-Threat Correlations in Turkish Newspapers -- Part III Agencies -- 10. Documenting Social Change and Political Unrest through Mobile Spaces and Locative Media -- 11. Reframing the Arab Spring : On Data Mining and the Field of Arab Internet Studies -- 12. Where is Iran? Politics between State and Nation , Inside and Outside the Polity -- 13. Mapping Genocide? Giving Visual Memory to Oral Culture -- 14. Reconfiguring the Kurdish Nation on YouTube : Spatial Imaginations, Revolutionary Lyrics, and Colonial Knowledge -- Index

Statistical data and evidence-based claims are increasingly central to our everyday lives. Critically examining 'Big Data', this book charts the recent explosion in sources of data, including those precipitated by global developments and technological change. It sets out changes and controversies related to data harvesting and construction, dissemination and data analytics by a range of private, governmental and social organisations in multiple settings. Analysing the power of data to shape political debate, the presentation of ideas to us by the media, and issues surrounding data ownership and access, the authors suggest how data can be used to uncover injustices and to advance social progress