Humanistic GIS: Toward a Research Agenda

The accelerated proliferation of geographic information systems (GIS), especially in the last decade, has greatly expanded connotation GIS technology from primarily a diverse suite digital objects, representations, and devices that create or make use geographical to mediated means with which we humans experience, explore, sense world. research perspective humanistic is proposed better encompass category as well opportunities challenges go it. Deeply rooted geography, offers coherent systematic framework integrates existing fragmented humanism-related studies reorients epistemological foundation by situating its mediation human experience. This configuration not only categorizes through embodiment, hermeneutic, autonomous, background relations involved place but it also provides an analytical structure for examining intertwined implications particular instantiation GIS. newly demonstrates sincere quest develop ways will be more empathetic humanity. Through this article, both geography communities are called on envision pathway next chapter