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Recent years have seen the emergence of sound mapping, through which users can sharetheir recordings of sounds via online mapping platforms. These practices are enabled by an array ofspatial and digital technologies that also facilitate the growth of the so-called volunteered geographicinformation (VGI) regarding contributions from users without training in conventional GIS orcartography. In the growing body of work on VGI, however, not much attention has been given to theemergence of sound maps as part of the VGI constructions. Meanwhile, research in soundscape has notaddressed the aspect of crowd-sourcing or user-generated contributions facilitated by newinformation and communication technologies. This article seeks to bridge this gap. It draws uponimportant insights from critical GIS research into investigating VGI as visual practices, while it is alsoinformed by three areas of soundscape research including mapping soundscapes, tracing theproduction of soundscapes and exploring embodied experiences with soundscapes. Through anempirical case in China, this article suggests a two-level analytical framework: investigating in whatways such crowd-sourced sound maps emerge and interpreting these sounds on the shared platform.In so doing, this study calls for more engagement with the multi-modality aspect of visuality inmappings, which in turn may have implications for landscape design and planning. In this way, it seeksto enrich the discussion on critical visualization.
Author(s): Lin W
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Landscape and Urban Planning
Year: 2015
Volume: 142
Pages: 187-197
Print publication date: 01/10/2015
Online publication date: 31/08/2015
Acceptance date: 14/08/2015
Date deposited: 11/09/2015
ISSN (print): 0169-2046
ISSN (electronic): 1872-6062
Publisher: Elsevier BV
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.08.007
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.08.007
Notes: Special Issue: Critical Approaches to Landscape Visualization
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