| My research agenda is situated across political, feminist, and urban geography as well as science and technoculture studies, interfacing these with the more specified field of ‘critical geographic information systems’. I am interested in how geographic information technologies enable particular neighborhood assessment endeavors, and how these kinds of geocoding activities mobilize notions of ‘quality-of-life’ and ‘sustainability’.
My dissertation research concentrates at the intersections of several phenomena, namely the energies with which nonprofit and community organizations approach neighborhood quality-of-life issues, the increased role that geographic information technologies have in addressing this kind of indicator work, as well as the increased geocoding of city spaces more generally.
I conceptualize geographic information technologies as a technoscientific practice, with its associated constellations of organizations, places, bodies, and technologies. Informed by self-told stories of origins within the 'GIS and Society' literature and broader movements in technocultural studies, I attempt to modestly witness (following Haraway) the material and discursive productions of a nonprofit moved to create new futures for Seattle neighborhoods and their residents. I propose cyborgian performativity as a conceptualization of subjectivation in GIT, as it celebrates technology in its potential openness while being resolved to carefully account for the political imaginaries internalized through their practice. More specifically, I ask: how are individuals' and organizations' interactions with geographic information technologies constituted by and through the identities and subjectivities of these organizations, bodies, technologies, and places?
AAG paper and panel sessions, which I have co-organized, contextualize my research. Click here.
Invited lectures
Working manuscripts
- Sayers, Jentery, J. James Bono, Curtis Hisayasu, Matthew W. Wilson. "Standards in the Making: Composing with Metadata in Mind." In The New Work of Composing.
Recent and forthcoming publications
(some titles are hyperlinked)
- Wilson, Matthew W. Forthcoming, 2009. Cyborg geographies: Towards hybrid epistemologies. Gender, Place & Culture.
- Wilson, Matthew W., Barbara Poore. 2009. Repositioning Critical GIS. Cartographica. 44:1: p. 5-16
- Wilson, Matthew W. Forthcoming, 2009. Towards a genealogy of qualitative GIS. In Qualitative GIS: A Mixed Methods Approach, edited by Meghan Cope and Sarah Elwood. Sage.
- Kaserman, Bonnie, Matthew W. Wilson. 2009. On not wanting it to count: Reading together as resistance. Area. 41:1. p. 26-33.
- Brown, Michael, Matthew W. Wilson. 2009. Ten years on(ward)! Social & Cultural Geography. 10:1. p. 1-8.
- Ramsey, Kevin S., Matthew W. Wilson (equal contribution). Forthcoming. Rethinking the 'informed' participant: Precautions and recommendations for the design of online deliberation. In Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice. CSLI Publications. Todd Davies and Beth Noveck, editors.
- Wilson, Matthew W. Forthcoming, 2009. Timothy Nyerges. In Encyclopedia of Geography. Sage. Barney Warf, editor.
- Wilson, Matthew W. 2009. Framing political, personal expression on the web. In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology. 2nd edition. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, editor. pp. 1580-1585.
- Wilson, Matthew W., Kevin S. Ramsey (equal contribution). 2008. Integrating online deliberation into transportation investment decision-making: Preliminary reflections on a field experiment. In Proceedings of Tools for Participation, DIAC / Online Deliberation 2008.
- Nyerges, Tim, Kevin Ramsey, Matthew Wilson. 2006. Design considerations for an Internet portal to support public participation in transportation improvement decision making. In Collaborative Geographic Information Systems. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc. Suzana Dragicevic and Shivanand Balram, editors.
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These were successfully defended in June of 2007.
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