It's safe to say that the world has a lot going on right now. How can we address the ceaseless onslaught of headlines critically, without falling victim to pervasive misinformation, insidious personal biases, and untold media angles?
In this introductory workshop to ArcGIS Online, we'll discuss the ethical and philosophical implications of human migration throughout history and practice contemporary media literacy to develop, explore, and creatively visualize our own geospatial questions. We'll examine borders not just as lines on a map, but as technologies of control — constructed, maintained, and enforced through data, policy, and narrative. What does it mean to thrive unauthorized in a world that demands documentation for dignity?
You'll learn to frame critical spatial questions, navigate ArcGIS Online, and begin building your own StoryMap exploring migration, sovereignty, and the politics of belonging
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Thriving Unauthorized: Borders as Technology
Literary censorship has long been the canary in the coal mine for rising authoritarianism. From 2022 to 2023, the American Library Association recorded a 65% increase in book removal requests across US schools and libraries — and the Fall 2023 semester alone saw more bans than the entire previous academic year.
In this civic literacy lab, we'll walk through an interactive ArcGIS StoryMap built from original multivariate research by rewildingIntelligence. Our analysis links book banning patterns to restrictive state legislation, school district demographics, and systemic identity suppression.