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Digging into Google Earth: An analysis of 'Crisis in Darfur'

机译：深入Google地球：“达尔富尔危机”分析

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Google publicists have suggested the Crisis in Darfur is an example of the Google Earth software's "success at tangibly impacting what is happening on the ground." Yet whether or not Google Earth's interface, along with a medley of other media representations of the conflict, have impacted events on the ground or led to coherent policies of humanitarian intervention remains open to debate. This article draws upon critical approaches from media studies-namely discourse analysis-to analyze several aspects of the Google Earth/USHMM Crisis in Darfur project. While this project was no doubt developed with the noble intention of generating international awareness about widespread violence that has recently occurred in the Darfur region, it is important to evaluate how representations of global conflicts are changing with uses of new information technologies and whether such representations can actually achieve their desired impacts or effects. The article begins with a discussion of the Crisis in Darfur project's history, proceeds to analyze some of the press coverage of the project and then moves to a critique of the layer using four categories of analysis: (1) the shifting role of satellite image; (2) the temporality of the interface; (3) the practice of conflict branding; and (4) the practice of "information intervention." Throughout the article, I explore how the presentation of Darfur-related materials through Google Earth reproduces problematic Western tropes of African tragedy and misses an opportunity to generate public literacy around satellite images. I also consider how humanitarianism is intertwined with digital and disaster capitalism, and suggest that this instance of "information intervention" makes patently clear that high visual capital alone cannot resolve global conflicts.
机译：谷歌的宣传人士认为，“达尔富尔危机”是“谷歌地球”软件“成功地切实影响地面正在发生的事情”的一个例子。然而，Google Earth的界面以及冲突的其他媒体代表是否混杂在一起，是否已经影响了当地的事件或导致了一致的人道主义干预政策，仍有待商debate。本文借鉴了媒体研究的关键方法（即话语分析）来分析“ Google Earth / USHMM达尔富尔危机”项目的多个方面。尽管毫无疑问，开发这个项目的初衷是希望引起国际社会对最近在达尔富尔地区发生的广泛暴力的认识，但重要的是要评估全球冲突的代表如何随着新信息技术的使用而发生变化，以及这种代表是否可以实际达到其预期的影响或效果。本文从讨论达尔富尔项目的历史危机开始，着手分析该项目的一些新闻报道，然后使用四类分析对这一层进行评论：（1）卫星图像的转移作用； （2）界面的时间性； （3）冲突品牌的做法； （四）“信息干预”的做法。在整篇文章中，我将探索通过Google Earth展示与达尔富尔相关的材料如何重现有问题的西方非洲悲剧，并且错过了围绕卫星图像提高公众素养的机会。我还考虑了人道主义与数字和灾难资本主义如何交织在一起，并建议这种“信息干预”的实例明确表明，仅凭视觉资本就无法解决全球冲突。

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