Tianditu: China's first official online mapping service

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dc.contributor.authorChen, Yu-Wen
dc.contributor.authorYap, Ko-Hua
dc.contributor.authorLee, Joey Ying
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-04T16:51:45Z
dc.date.available2014-02-04T16:51:45Z
dc.date.issued2013-03
dc.date.updated2013-12-19T07:30:44Z
dc.description.abstractTianditu is China’s first state-sponsored web mapping service. Beijing considers Tianditu part and parcel of its burgeoning endeavor to build a ‘digital China’. The Chinese state created Tianditu to regain some of the ground lost when its monopoly on geographic information was effectively broken. This effort goes hand in hand with Beijing’s intention to compete with and shrink the space occupied by Google mapping services (Google Maps, Google Earth, etc.). Although Tianditu does bestow a certain degree of power on civilian users to interact with and explore geographic data, for political and social reasons the Chinese state tightly controls Tianditu. It is a tool that the regime uses to maintain political power and push ideologies it supports. This type of top-down reinforcement of static geographic knowledge is a far cry from the concept of civilian empowerment as understood in liberal democracies.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationCHEN, Y.-W., YAP, K.-H. & LEE, J. Y. 2013. Tianditu: China’s first official online mapping service. Media, Culture & Society, 35, 234-249. doi: 10.1177/0163443712468776en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0163443712468776
dc.identifier.endpage249en
dc.identifier.issn0163-4437
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleMedia, Culture and Societyen
dc.identifier.startpage234en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/1365
dc.identifier.volume35en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSageen
dc.relation.urihttp://mcs.sagepub.com/content/35/2/234.abstract
dc.subjectCartographic representationen
dc.subjectGoogle Earthen
dc.subjectGoogle Mapsen
dc.subjectOnline mapping serviceen
dc.subjectTiandituen
dc.subjectWeb cartographyen
dc.titleTianditu: China's first official online mapping serviceen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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