This post is cross-posted with permission from April Lindgren and Christina Wong at Local News Research Project. By April Lindgren and Christina Wong Introduction Concerns about how neighbourhoods are portrayed in the news have surfaced regularly in the Toronto area over the years. But are those concerns valid? Interactive maps produced by the The Local News Research Project (LNRP) at … Read More
Mapping to Empower Excluded Populations with Jon Corbett at University of British Columbia
By Drew Bush In our daily usage, most maps contain a logical representation of a city’s streets or a forest’s hiking trails that allows us to safely navigate to new locations. For many indigenous and excluded populations, maps can play a more fundamental role. Jon Corbett, an Associate Professor in Community, Culture and Global Studies at the University of British … Read More