Dear Colleagues, Some of you might be interested in this session that Joe Shaw and I are organising at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco next year: *___* *An Informational Right to the City? Rethinking the Production, Consumption, and Governance of Digital Geographic Information <http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/cfp-at-aag-2016-an-informational-right-to-the-city-rethinking-the-production-consumption-and-governance-of-digital-geographic-information/>* A session at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco, March 29-April 2, 2016 Joe Shaw <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=369> and Mark Graham <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/graham/> (University of Oxford) Henri Lefebvre (2003:251) once talked of the right to information as a complement to the right to the city. Since then, information communication technologies have become integrally embedded into much of everyday life. The speed of these developments has also obfuscated many changes and processes that now envelop and define the urban experience. This includes changes in systems of abstract spatial representation through geographic information, and the economies surrounding this information as a commodity. The representations which are produced and mediated through this digital information are now contributing to an urban space that is densely digitally layered (Graham, M., M. Zook, and A. Boulton. 2013). These digital ‘abstract’ spaces are essential to the production and re-production of our socio-economic world (Lefebvre, 1991). From Wikipedia to Google Maps and TripAdvisor, the code and content that relates to a building is now potentially as important as its bricks and mortar. These processes raise new questions of spatial justice and the urbanization of information: Which spaces are seen, and which are hidden? How is information produced, for whom, and who consumes it? How does information change material places? Who are the powerful actors in these events, and who are powerless? And finally, is the broader concept of an 'informational right to the city' now required? If so, how should it be envisioned and put into practice? This session invites submissions concerned with the production, consumption, and governance of urban geographic information, and it encourages research and reflections that seek to rethink what informational rights we have in our hybrid material/digital cities. Lefebvre, H. (1991). The production of space. (D. Nicholson-Smith & D. N.- Smith, Eds.). Oxford: Oxford : Blackwell. Lefebvre, H. (2003). Henri Lefebvre: key writings. (S. Elden, E. Lebas, & E. Kofman, Eds.). New York: New York. Graham, M., Zook, M., & Boulton, A. (2013). Augmented reality in urban places: contested content and the duplicity of code. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(3), 464–479. ___ Please email abstracts of no more than 300 words to Mark Graham ( mark.graham@oii.ox.ac.uk) or Joe Shaw (joe.shaw@oii.ox.ac.uk) by Friday 2nd October 2015. Successful submissions will be contacted by 9th October 2015 and will be expected to pay the registration fee and submit their abstracts online <http://www.aag.org/annualmeeting> at the AAG website by October 29th 2015. ------------------------------------------ Dr Mark Graham Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford Research Fellow Green Templeton College University of Oxford Visiting Research Associate School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford oii.ox.ac.uk/people/graham <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/graham> | geospace.co.uk <http://www.geospace.co.uk> | Information Geographies <http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk> | wikichains.org <http://www.wikichains.org> | @geoplace <http://twitter.com/geoplace> | zerogeography blog <http://www.zerogeography.net/> | Connectivity, Inclusion and Inequality Group <http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/> | GEONET <http://geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk> <http://twitter.com/geoplace>