{"id":2601,"date":"2011-05-23T13:04:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2011-05-23T13:05:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T17:05:26","slug":"prosumer-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/05\/23\/prosumer-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosumer Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/05\/google-earth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2609\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/05\/google-earth-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>Google Maps has a new tool to help the consumers of its popular maps also be producers. Users-generated improvements will be a benifit to many,\u00a0but probably most to Google itself. While the Google video below paints all of this in light of personal or civic empowerment (&#8220;leave your mark&#8221;), we should also understand that this move towards us becoming &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologylens\/2009\/01\/16\/prosumers-of-the-world-unite\/\" target=\"_blank\">prosumers<\/a>&#8221; of these maps is also about the company taking advantage of our free labor in hopes of earning greater profits. Does that bother anyone?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introducing Google Map Maker for the United States\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/znCPgldRWTc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps has a new tool to help the consumers of its popular maps also be producers. Users-generated improvements will be a benifit to many,\u00a0but probably most to Google itself. While the Google video below paints all of this in light of personal or civic empowerment (&#8220;leave your mark&#8221;), we should also understand that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9967,425],"tags":[98,10640,2704,775,10639,270,3324,3329,3331],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-links","tag-capitalism","tag-earth","tag-exploitation","tag-google","tag-mapping","tag-maps","tag-profit","tag-prosumer","tag-prosumption"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2988,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}