Introduction to regional approaches to data, environment and society

Abstract

Theoretical and methodological research into the geographical effects of software, algorithms, sensors and platforms increasingly focuses squarely on data and their analysis. Amidst increasing attention on ‘the digital’ (broadly defined) within various cognate fields, scholars have begun critically scrutinizing the recursive relations between individual, society, city-regions and environment as mediated through technological and computational devices and approaches, and, in particular, how phenomena are encoded and acted upon as data. In this editorial, we introduce a set of articles that interrogate regional and interregional approaches to these and other issues.