Rather than assume that there is some universal “right way” to engage social media platforms, we interrogate how the location-based social media practice known as “jumping” played out on the popular service Foursquare. We use this case to investigate how a “global” or universal system is constructed with an imagined user in mind, one who enjoys a particular type of mobility and experience of pl...

We present initial findings of an ongoing effort to endow the key players in a nation-state model with intelligent behaviors. The model is based on resource exchange as the fundamental interaction between agents. In initial versions, model agents were severely limited in their ability to respond and adapt to changes in their environment. By modeling agents with a broader range of capabilities, ...

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the aim of this paper is investigating and studying of geopolitical dimensions of russia in the caspian sea. russian post-soviet geopolitics invokes euroasianism as its inner rationale and meaning, as a greater good that imbues pragmatic, interest based politics with a sense of mission. eurasianism as a particular tradition of theorizing russia’s identity and place in the world has a momentum o...

This essay advances an affective agenda in urban geopolitics that studies the everyday felt experience of terrorism. It takes as examples relations between spatial politics and atmospheres Place de la République (Paris) Bourse/Beursplein (Brussels) aftermath terrorist attacks 2015 2016. Intersecting feminist non-representational geographies, bridges geographical with experiential accounts geopo...

What is the impact of the internet on state sovereignty, and in particular on states’ ability to control information flows across their borders? Whereas once the internet was presumed to be a borderless world of free-flowing information, today countries and corporations alike are carving it up in a bewildering array of filtered segments, often with major unintended consequences. The motivations...

Social media enabled a direct path from producer to consumer of contents changing the way users get informed, debate, and shape their worldviews. Such a disintermediation might weaken consensus on social relevant issues in favor of rumors, mistrust, or conspiracy thinking-e.g., chem-trails inducing global warming, the link between vaccines and autism, or the New World Order conspiracy. Previous...