Dominik Kremer

Environmental crises as challenges for society as a whole (such as the COVID-19 pandemic), but also insidious crises (such as climate change) form a special field of discourse. In the effort to arrive at assessments or to justify them under high uncertainty or high pressure to act, patterns of argumentation are used in political but also in everyday language and make complexity manageable but also are prone to fallacy (cf. image schemata; Lakoff/Johnson 1980). To reveal the inner mechanisms of these discourses and their change over time with a special focus on body- and space-related metaphors is the subject of this research focus.

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• Moura de Souza C., Kremer D., Walker B. (2022): Placial-Discursive Topologies of Violence: Volunteered Geographic Information and the Reproduction of Violent Places in Recife, Brazil. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 11(10): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11100500
• Kremer D., Felgenhauer T. (2022): Reasoning COVID-19: the use of spatial metaphor in times of a crisis. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 265 (9): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01264-8
• Stadlmeier A., Kremer D., Walker B. (2022): Experiences of place-bound sociality amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis of environment-related coping strategies. Erdkunde 76 (3): online first. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2022.03.02
• Kremer D. (2020): Usage of spatial metaphor in tellings of the crisis. DiscourseNet Collaborative Working Paper Series. Special Issue Discourse Studies Essays on the Corona Crisis 2 (8): 1-4. https://discourseanalysis.net/dncwps
• Kremer D. (2013): Orts(re)konstruktionen. Analyse der Mikrostruktur ortsbezogener Argumentationsmuster in Erinnerungsnarrativen Bamberger Einwohner. Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde 87 (2): 175-193.

Maps are unsuitable as a representation of individual experiences of place (Cresswell 2004). Models of semantic, visual, and mobility experiences in local (everyday or tourist) spaces are thus a research gap that can bear a number of further applications. Text analysis enables the comparison of the semantic context in which places are negotiated. Analyses of visual material provide information about foci of attention, and mobility analyses provide insight into everyday worlds of experience. To close this modeling gap, to increase the geoinforrmatic expression possibilities and at the same time to bring it closer to the claim of informed theory-based social research, is the subject of this research focus.

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• Brinkmann S., Kremer D., Walker B. (2022): Modelling eye-level visibility of urban green space: Optimising city-wide point-based viewshed computations through prototyping. AGILE GIScience 27 (3): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-3-27-2022
• Walker B., Brinkmann S., Große T., Kremer D., Schuurman N., Hystad P., Rangarajan S., Teo K., Yusuf S., Scott L. (2022): Neighbourhood greenspace and socioeconomic risk are associated with diabetes risk at the sub‐neighbourhood scale: Results from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE) Study. Journal of Urban Health 99: 506-518. 10.1007/s11524-022-00630-w
• Kremer D., Walker B. (2022): Geodaten quantitativ, aber kritisch analysieren: die Methode der explorativen räumlichen Datenanalyse am Beispiel von COVID‐19 in Brasilien. In: Dammann F., Michel B. (Hrsg.): Handbuch Kritisches Kartieren. Bielefeld: 307-324.
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• Kremer D. (2018): Rekonstruktion von Orten als sozialem Phänomen: Geoinformatische Analyse semantisch annotierter Verhaltensdaten. Schriften aus der Fakultät Wirtschaftsinformatik und Angewandte Informatik der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (30). Bamberg. 10.20378/irbo-51890

Geographic perspectives and analyses of film and media are long established (Cresswell and Dixon 2002) and consider film as an approach to interrogating everyday perceptions of space. Traditional dichotomies such as ‘civilization’ versus ‘wilderness’ form topoi that lend themselves to viewers in search of the escapist fantasy (Kirsch 2002). This perspective can also be applied to video games with the concept of environmental storytelling (Ascher 2014) (e.g. Günzel 2019) and helps to understand which structures guide individual experiences of digital environments. Mobile location-based games introduce an interaction element with location movement that video games lack. They are interesting for a closer geodidactic examination because they not only support the social interaction of players, but also the individual appropriation of a space, e.g. of an urban neighborhood or a nature park.

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• Kremer D., Sonnenwald D., Walker B. (2022): Explorative räumliche Analyse der Funktion von Landschaft in Videospielen. Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften Sonderband 5 (2). https://doi.org/10.17175/sb005_009
• Schlieder C., Kremer D., Heinz T. (2018): Teaching Geogame Design: Game Relocation as a Spatial Analysis Task. In: Ahlqvist O., Schlieder C. (Eds.): Geogames and Geoplay. Advances in Geographic Information Science. Cham: 111-130. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22774-0_6
• Feulner B., Kremer D. (2016): Geogames – Räume neu erfahren am Beispiel CityPoker. In: Gryl I. (Hrsg.): Reflexive Kartenarbeit. Diercke Methoden und Aufgaben. Braunschweig: 129-141.

Common WebGIS systems are currently just beginning to integrate functions of classic content management systems such as structured release processes, versioning, multi-language support, and search and filter options. In this way, apps can be developed for the first time that consider the continuous content acquisition process to lie inside the app, integrate location-based multimedia into the app, and enable on-site participation. The further development of these approaches in application-related projects with application partners is the subject of this research focus.

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• Kremer D. (2022): WebGIS meets E-Learning. Werkzeuge für digital unterstützte geographische Exkursionen. In: Bröll L., Erdmann J., Egbert B. (Hrsg.): Bildung auf Distanz: (Medien-)Technologie, Politik und Lebenswelten in aktuellen Lernprozessen (=e-culture 29). Berlin: 43-54.
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