There are some really interesting collisions happening in the growing interdisciplinary area of the Digital Humanities.
This one concerns urban cultural studies in particular.
Check out the developing Hypercities project:
Built on the idea that every past is a place, HyperCities is a digital research and educational platform for exploring, learning about, and interacting with the layered histories of city and global spaces. Developed though collaboration between UCLA and USC, the fundamental idea behind HyperCities is that all stories take place somewhere and sometime; they become meaningful when they interact and intersect with other stories. Using Google Maps and Google Earth, HyperCities essentially allows users to go back in time to create and explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment.
There’s also a “Digital Cultural Mapping” NEH Summer Institute at UCLA during Summer 2012.
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