2022
Exploring the intersection of KE, outreach and professional development: A model for a sustainable university
Specht, DougConference paperForthcoming
CETI Learning &Teaching Symposium, London, UK, 2022
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Specht, DougConference paperForthcoming
Royal Geographical Society (with IGB) Annual International Conference, Newcastle, UK, 2022
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Creative Practice in the Virtual Studio
Petrovna, Denitsa; Specht, DougConference paper
International Conference on Improving University Teaching, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2022
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Going it Alone Online: Lessons from a Fully Asynchronous Dissertation Module
Specht, DougConference paper
International Conference on Improving University Teaching, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2022
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Embedding Ethics in Geography: Geospatial ethical frameworks in the classroom
Specht, DougConference paper
EuroGEO, Lesvos, Greece, 2022
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Reimagining the relationships between Knowledge Exchange, Continuing Professional Development, and Outreach
Specht, DougConference paper
Plymouth Marjon University, Knowledge Exchange in Higher Education: implications for teaching and research, Plymouth, UK, 2022
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2021
Framing Environmental Justice through Social Media in Latin America
Specht, DougConference paper
Media and Power Conference, Lima, Peru, 2021
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Reflections on a successful ‘online pivot’: learning for the future
Peter Chatterton Doug Specht, Peter HartleyConference paper
Academic Practice and Technology (APT2021) conference, Online, 2021
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Technopolitics and mapping in International Development: A case study of Tanzania
Specht, DougConference paper
EuroGEO, Online, 2021
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Misrepresentation in knowledge dissemination: How can critical social education help?
Gimenez, Julio; Specht, DougConference paper
University of Westminster, CETI Conversations in Educational Research, Online, 2021
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2020
Mapping online communities in the Digital Classroom
Specht, DougConference paperVideo
Digital Geography Research Group 4th Annual Symposium, Using the Digital: Research Methods, Teaching, and Everyday Practice, Online, 2020
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EPQ Media and Communication
Specht, DougConference paper
University of Westminster, Learning and Teaching Symposium, Online, 2020
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2019
Human Rights: Mappings, Surveillance, and Sousveillance
Specht, DougConference paperSlides available
Business Ethics and Human Rights, from Theory to Practice, Regents University, London, 2019
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Illusions of Community: Mapping online interactions during extended peer work exercises
Specht, DougConference paper
Researcher Network Conference ‘Research Matters’, University of Westminster, London, UK, 2019
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Escaping the Cartographic Gaze
Specht, DougPublic eventSlides available
Geospatial World Forum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019
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2018
The Art of Data and value of nothingness
Specht, DougPublic event
UK Mapping Festival (with BCS and SoC), ILEC Conference Centre, London, UK, 2018
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Specht, Doug; Hunt, AmeliaConference paperPhotosSlides available
FOSS4G, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2018
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New participatory spaces: The role of locating in resistance
Specht, DougConference paperPhotosSlides available
FOSS4G, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2018
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Neogeography and the insurrection of knowledges
Specht, DougConference paper
EASST, Meetings – Making Science, Technology and Society together, Lancaster University, UK, 2018
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Bigger Data, Bigger Divide? The role of Big Data and GI Analysis in redrawing the digital divide
Specht, DougConference paper
University of Westminster, International Development at Westminster: current research and future perspectives, London, UK, 2018
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2016
Data, Visualisation and Human Development
Specht, Doug; Boehnert, JoannaConference paper
OII, Oxford Big Data and Development Symposium, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2016
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abstract = {This paper explores the risks of uncritical approaches to big data on issues of development with a focus on how it is harnessed in images. Accurate information is a basis for effective policy making, yet big data is far too often understood as empirically incontestable. This apparently evidence-based analysis can obscure more than it reveals. We examine how big data is being mobilized in data visualization on issues of human development in ways that serve ideological agendas. We will begin by examining how images work with a re-contextualization of impressionist art. A critic of Cézanne declared that his artwork was nothing more than an ugly untruth, a deliberate distortion of nature. Using this notion as a starting point, this paper questions how data visualisation illustrates trends and presents truth claims, through the privileging certain perspectives and importantly the rejection of others. We will then examine Max Roser’s Our World in Data (OurWorldinData.org) as an example of data visualization on issues of human development. Through these examples we will develop the concepts of digital positivism, datawash and darkdata as critical tools for approaching the communication of big data. Data visualization and artwork both reflect perceptions of the world, power relations, special interests and ideologies. The impressionists painted the unseen and unknown through painting voids. This paper posits that we could avoid the obfuscations of big data by understanding that its voids are political, but also that these voids might help us more clearly see power and ideology in data.},
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This paper explores the risks of uncritical approaches to big data on issues of development with a focus on how it is harnessed in images. Accurate information is a basis for effective policy making, yet big data is far too often understood as empirically incontestable. This apparently evidence-based analysis can obscure more than it reveals. We examine how big data is being mobilized in data visualization on issues of human development in ways that serve ideological agendas. We will begin by examining how images work with a re-contextualization of impressionist art. A critic of Cézanne declared that his artwork was nothing more than an ugly untruth, a deliberate distortion of nature. Using this notion as a starting point, this paper questions how data visualisation illustrates trends and presents truth claims, through the privileging certain perspectives and importantly the rejection of others. We will then examine Max Roser’s Our World in Data (OurWorldinData.org) as an example of data visualization on issues of human development. Through these examples we will develop the concepts of digital positivism, datawash and darkdata as critical tools for approaching the communication of big data. Data visualization and artwork both reflect perceptions of the world, power relations, special interests and ideologies. The impressionists painted the unseen and unknown through painting voids. This paper posits that we could avoid the obfuscations of big data by understanding that its voids are political, but also that these voids might help us more clearly see power and ideology in data.
Bigger Data, Bigger Divide? The role of Big Data and GI Analysis in redrawing the digital information divide
Specht, DougConference paper
Penn State University, Freedom of Information in Crisis Zones, 2016
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Mapping the Violence of Development
Specht, DougConference paper
AAG, Annual Conference, San Francisco, USA, 2016
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How 2 Do It
Melissa Nisbett Roger Hallam,; Specht, Doug (Ed.)Conference paper
Kings College London,, London, UK, 2016
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2015
Walking the Tightrope: Activism and the Academy
Specht, DougConference paper
Goldsmiths, Social Movements and Media Technologies, London, UK, 2015
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How digital media, data and GIS are used in legitimizing and codifying local knowledge within the context of International Development
Specht, DougConference paper
University of Westminster, Transforming data: creative and critical directions in the arts and humanities, London, UK, 2015
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Big Data and Development
Specht, DougConference paper
Development Studies Association, Annual Conference, University of Bath, UK, 2015
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Big Data and Development
Specht, DougConference paper
RGS, Annual Conference, University of Exeter, UK, 2015
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The Digital Toolbox of Social Movements – Social Media vs. Online Mapping
Specht, DougConference paper
International Conference of Critical Geography, Precarious Radicalism on Shifting Grounds: Towards a Politics of Possibility, Ramallah, Palestine, 2015
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Geo: The Big 5. Future cities, Security
Specht, Doug (Ed.)Conference paperVideo
Association for Geographic information, Kings Way Hotel, London, UK, 2015
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Tools of Resistance: Using maps and social media to create spaces of protest around the extractive sector in Colombia
Specht, DougConference paper
Protest Participation in Variable Communication Ecologies. Meanings, Modalities and Implications. International Conference, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, 2015
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Using VGI and UGC to Document human rights abuses
Specht, DougConference paper
Geospatial World Forum, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015
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Neogeography and the insurrection of knowledges
Specht, DougConference paper
Education, Cultural Literacy and Collective Memory in Latin America, ILAS, University of London, UK, 2015
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New developments within ICT’s are, suggests Foucault, able to invert previous metaphors of the panopticon, with these new information technologies allowing for the challenging of elites. While this notion is subject to continuous debate, one such field where this inversion has been stark has been within the production of maps. Maps and spatial representations produced by local people have a long history, yet in the last ten years the field of cartography has moved in directions unimaginable just 20 years ago. Cartography, through increased access to digital platforms, has been slipping from the control of the powerful bourgeoisie bringing about the creation of ‘neogeography’ and the democratisation of participation. This in turn has created the potential for an ‘insurrection of knowledges’ in which GIS platforms allow for the expression of a variety of knowledges creating a more level playing field for comparing consensus and division. In turn allowing for a wider exploration of the cultural and political conditions that direct human understandings of the environment. These ‘counter-maps’ which express local knowledges in cartographic form can be a powerful tool in promoting the rights of communities. This paper seeks to show the ways in which they have been used in Latin America to go beyond spatial representations and towards eliciting competing localities and grounded truths which enunciate and draw conflict to the centre of attention.
GIS, Big Data and Lessons from John Snow
Specht, DougConference paper
GISR-UK, University of Leeds, UK, 2015
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date = {2015-04-23},
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Digital Resistance: The use of Maps and Social Media in protesting large scale mining projects in Latin America
Specht, DougConference paper
Social-Environmental Conflicts and Human Rights in Latin America, ILAS, University of London, UK, 2015
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title = { Digital Resistance: The use of Maps and Social Media in protesting large scale mining projects in Latin America},
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year = {2015},
date = {2015-03-12},
address = {ILAS, University of London, UK},
series = {Social-Environmental Conflicts and Human Rights in Latin America},
abstract = {As peace comes to Latin America, the continent has been inundated with a new wave of invaders who seek to exploit the vast tracks of land and rich mineral resources, often at the expense of local populations. This has manifest itself in an influx of extractive projects to which many social movements have objected heavily. Studies on the role of digital media in these political mobilisations and in developing countries are still scarce. Using document and theoretical analysis, interviews, surveys, GIS and content analysis from social media, this study examines the role of digital and social media in protest movements from Colombia and El Salvador and explores the extent to which increased digital connectivity can help spread knowledge about human rights and environmental issues. Results show that the use of social media is still embryonic and hindered by strong hierarchical power structures within social movements, meaning its effect on political mobilisation is often limited, or negative. This implies that social media do not spontaneously produce non-hierarchical knowledge structures, and that may be a need to further develop knowledge dissemination strategies. The study goes on to ask whether it is then community mapping, rather than the much lauded social media, that will help legitimize knowledge around human rights and environmental abuses associated with the extractive industries in a way that moves beyond documenting abuses and towards holding those responsible to account.},
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As peace comes to Latin America, the continent has been inundated with a new wave of invaders who seek to exploit the vast tracks of land and rich mineral resources, often at the expense of local populations. This has manifest itself in an influx of extractive projects to which many social movements have objected heavily. Studies on the role of digital media in these political mobilisations and in developing countries are still scarce. Using document and theoretical analysis, interviews, surveys, GIS and content analysis from social media, this study examines the role of digital and social media in protest movements from Colombia and El Salvador and explores the extent to which increased digital connectivity can help spread knowledge about human rights and environmental issues. Results show that the use of social media is still embryonic and hindered by strong hierarchical power structures within social movements, meaning its effect on political mobilisation is often limited, or negative. This implies that social media do not spontaneously produce non-hierarchical knowledge structures, and that may be a need to further develop knowledge dissemination strategies. The study goes on to ask whether it is then community mapping, rather than the much lauded social media, that will help legitimize knowledge around human rights and environmental abuses associated with the extractive industries in a way that moves beyond documenting abuses and towards holding those responsible to account.
2014
Securing Human and Environmental Rights with PGIS
Specht, DougConference paper
Association for Geographic Information, GeoCom, Warwick, UK, 2014
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title = {Securing Human and Environmental Rights with PGIS},
author = {Doug Specht},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-11-01},
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abstract = {Maps have been shown to be an incredibly important resource, especially in the environmental sector, but the costs are often prohibitive to their creation. This research is examining how publicly created online maps are able to support human rights and environmental justice. How do we open up mapping products to enable the worlds poor and grassroots movements to be able to create maps that support their causes, and thus giving them a bigger voice, and legitimizing their knowledge within the Development sector.},
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Maps have been shown to be an incredibly important resource, especially in the environmental sector, but the costs are often prohibitive to their creation. This research is examining how publicly created online maps are able to support human rights and environmental justice. How do we open up mapping products to enable the worlds poor and grassroots movements to be able to create maps that support their causes, and thus giving them a bigger voice, and legitimizing their knowledge within the Development sector.
Using PGIS and VGI to support Human Rights and Environmental Justice
Specht, DougConference paper
Esri UC, San Diego, USA, 2014
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title = {Using PGIS and VGI to support Human Rights and Environmental Justice},
author = {Doug Specht},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-07-01},
address = {San Diego, USA},
organization = {Esri UC},
abstract = {Maps have been shown to be an incredibly important resource, especially in the environmental sector, but the costs are often prohibitive to their creation. This research is examining how publicly created online maps are able to support human rights and environmental justice. How do we open up mapping products to enable the worlds poor and grassroots movements to be able to create maps that support their causes, and thus giving them a bigger voice.},
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Maps have been shown to be an incredibly important resource, especially in the environmental sector, but the costs are often prohibitive to their creation. This research is examining how publicly created online maps are able to support human rights and environmental justice. How do we open up mapping products to enable the worlds poor and grassroots movements to be able to create maps that support their causes, and thus giving them a bigger voice.