Transboundary E-waste

Procedures for mapping the wild web.

This path describes the procedures used to map the controversy on what we call the 'wild web'. By the 'wild web' we mean the Internet indexed by Google that a user would experience were they to begin a search for a given term at Google's search website. We use the term to distinguish this part of the web from the 'scholarly web' which is comprised of proprietary databases used by academics to find peer-reviewed and associated literature.

This page has paths:

  1. Introduction: a map of the map. Josh Lepawsky

Contents of this path:

  1. Defining a starting point for the controversy map.
  2. Procedure for moving from statements to debates.
  3. Procedures for moving from debates to actors on the web.
  4. Procedure for moving from actors to networks on the web.
  5. Procedure for moving from networks to locations.
  6. Procedure for moving from locations to timelines.