Spatial Visualization: Ship Map by UCL Energy Institute

https://www.shipmap.org/

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In this spatial module, you will observe the volume and patterns of global shipping in actual routes for most of the year of 2012. In Chapter 12 Creating a Global Economy, you examined the role of transportation in facilitating the space-time-cost convergence that makes the global economy possible. Now you can explore the networks of connections that flow across the world. With this interactive, you can sort through the types of ships that constitute the whole of global shipping. By exploring the types of ships in the merchant fleet, you will get a sense of the types of trade connections that link up parts of the world. Further, you may see evidence of the regions’ economic specializations and of the global shift in manufacturing.

Following the link above will take you directly to the interactive map. First you will notice a basic base map of the world’s waterways with animated dots as the ships moving among them. You can change between data under the dropdown menu Show. Select to show Ports. Next to that you can change the type color and filter out types, with two remaining dropdowns. Notice the two sets of text on the map. One attributes the map and data. The box on the right provides you with the aggregate data on major trade goods. At the bottom is a timeline for the point in the year that is currently animated. You can select on any point on the timeline to skip forward or back.

To begin the activity, select the ‘i’ icon in the top-right. Read the map introduction, and then answer the following questions.

1. The _____ type of ships usually carry _____.
a. Tanker; vehicles
b. Gas bulk; oil
c. Dry bulk; coal
d. Container; cars

2. What type of ship is most likely carrying consumer goods?
a. tanker
b. dry bulk
c. container
d. all of these

3. What is true about the data set?
a. it has consistent, complete data for the entire year
b. it is essentially inaccurate since its data is hypothetical
c. it is incomplete for the first few months of the year
d. it collected data directly from shipping companies

4. What is an accurate assumption about the political interest behind the funding of the shipmap?
a. big oil companies have financially supported this project
b. interests concerned with climate change are behind the project
c. the project is only meant to be useful to the UCL Energy Institute
d. interests concerned with global trade policy are behind the project

Scroll up and select Back to Map. Start the data in January by clicking on the timeline at the bottom of the map. Click on a spot in July on the timeline. Click back and forth between the two spots to observe differences in the data set.

5. What is possible explanation is NOT supported by your observed differences in the data between January and July?
a. some shipping lanes in July are not as used in January
b. generally appears that there are more ships in July than January
c. some shipping lanes absent in January are in high-latitude locales
d. generally low-latitude coasts have a huge variation between those months

Select May 2012. Then zoom out to see the entire world.

6. Where in the world does there appear to be the highest volume in global shipping?
a. across the Pacific
b. in the Tropic latitudes
c. across the Atlantic
d. in the Polar latitudes

In geography, a chokepoint is a feature where the narrowing of land route or waterway creates a slow-down in passage and produces security concerns.
7. What continent has the most internal waterways chokepoints?
a. Africa
b. Americas
c. Europe
d. Asia

Select the header dropdown Show and select Routes.

8. What is accurate about the pattern of Routes you see on the shipmap?
a. there appears to be global trade specialization in some areas
b. high-latitude areas seem to be dominated by oil tanker traffic
c. areas with islands tend to have more container traffic
d. all of these

9. What is NOT true about the general differences observed between shipping patterns in the Atlantic compared to the Pacific?
a. trade in the Atlantic has more oil tankers
b. trade in the Pacific has more container ships
c. trade in both oceans is dominated by fuel shipping
d. trade in both oceans is uniform in each hemisphere

Select the header dropdown Show and select Ships. Then select the header Colours and select Ship Type.

10. The color ____ is observed to have a dense route network across most of the world bringing _____ to trade.
a. red; vehicles
b. green; oil tankers
c. purple; dry bulk ships
d. blue; gas bulk ships

11. What type of product is typically found reaching into many peripheral, high-latitude, and interior locations?
a. vehicle ships
b. dry bulk ships
c. container ships
d. oil tankers

Zoom into Australia. Select Routes under the Show dropdown menu in the header. Zoom in and out as necessary to see the Ports labeled.

12. What is NOT true about the geography of trade on the west coast of Australia?
a. Port of Fremantle solely deals in oil tankers and gas bulk ships.
b. Oil tankers are next to western Australia’s petroleum basins.
c. Port Hedland is devoted to outgoing, dry bulk shipping.
d. Tankers, dry, and gas bulk ships are found at Dampier’s port.

13. What type of ship is visibly predominant on the eastern side of Australia, connecting with New Zealand and the Pacific Islands of American Samoa and French Polynesia?
a. oil tanker
b. dry bulk ship
c. container ship
d. gas bulk ship

Zoom to the European continent.

14. What is NOT true about shipping to and from Europe?
a. occurs with no bottlenecks
b. happens along inland seas
c. occurs through rivers
d. happens along coasts

15. What is NOT one of the choke points affecting shipping in and around Europe?
a. Suez Canal
b. English Channel
c. Strait of Gibraltar
d. Strait of Malacca

Spatial Visualization: Global Jukebox Map by the Association for Cultural Equity

https://theglobaljukebox.org/
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In this spatial module, you will explore the world of music through The Global Jukebox, an interactive map with multimedia primary sources for culture groups from each of the world regions. In Chapter 13 The Global Geography of Culture, you were introduced to the sources of cultural production and the processes of de-/re-territorializing of cultural practices through the variety of ways that people move and share across the world. The map also provides a view on the diversity of world music by also making connections between music styles in different parts of the globe. In this way, you can investigate how music, as a proxy for cultural products in general, becomes transplanted and/or transformed in the process.

Following the link above will take you directly to the interactive map. At the top of the map is the header with several menus of content, from the project description, to curated musical journeys, lesson plans, and the case for cultural equity. To the right of that is the search box, the buttons for the map view, or the cultural wheel view. In the map, when you select a dot, the dot will open up into the network of sub-group locations that are part of that larger culture group. In addition, a dialog box will also open up in the top, right-hand corner where the culture group information is displayed along with any linked recordings for those groups. At the bottom of the map are the controls for listening to recordings. To the left are controls for sharing or shuffling songs. Next to that is the Culture group title, where you can click the up arrow and see the geographical scales that Culture group is found within. To the right of that is a details icon that will show or collapse the metadata and coding for the songs in the Culture group. Finally, in the far-right are the song title and playback controls.

To begin the activity, click on the title links to access the various project descriptions. For each, a dialog box pops up with a written description. Begin with The Global Jukebox and read through to the Cultures description. Then answer the following questions.

1. What describes how musical traditions are classified in the interactive?
a. culture networks
b. cultural-geographic
c. geography of music
d. technical world music

2. What is NOT one of the contemporary challenges this research project has identified and situated itself within?
a. commodification of culture
b. growth of global media
c. rapid social changes
d. decline in folk populations

3. How are cultural musical traditions spatially represented in the interactive?
a. songs and dances of culture groups are coded for their attributes
b. attributes of culture groups’ acts are compared against other groups’
c. culture group locations and connections among groups are mapped
d. attributes of culture groups are represented in the culture wheel

4. How many total culture groups are identified in this interactive?
a. 6000
b. 5000
c. 1000
d. 100

5. What did researchers look for when they were analyzing performances across content and genres?
a. rare features
b. folk traditions
c. repetitive features
d. popular music aspects

6. What is the first order of categorization used in the interactive?
a. world region location
b. cross-cultural framework
c. expressive style
d. language

7. What is NOT true about the use of geography to structure the data in the project?
a. helps visitors navigate the data through the site
b. acknowledges that culture is not tied to geography
c. provides a framework for grouping the data for analysis
d. acknowledges the spatial nature of culture’s networks and flows

8. What is false about the theories and methodology behind the project?
a. expressive arts can be studied for unique markers of culture
b. this project used statistical analysis of coded recordings and films
c. performance samples were analyzed using cross-cultural methods
d. this project was compared to genetic data yet links were inconclusive

9. What happened in the 2015 with respect to The Global Jukebox project?
a. a new breakthrough in statistical techniques was applied
b. the classification system updated its identifiers
c. a comparison of genetic data changed the project’s main theory
d. the methodological system updated its data

Go to The Global Jukebox map. Center the map over the Americas.

10. What is NOT one of the regional groupings that have traditions found in the United States and Canada?
a. Indigenous Americans
b. European Diasporas
c. African Diasporas
d. Asian Diasporas

11. In the United States, the _____ region is where _____ cultural traditions can be found.
a. Southeast; North American
b. Southwest; African Diaspora
c. Northwest; Central American
d. Northeast; European Diaspora

Zoom out to the entire world.

12. What is NOT a world region with the presence of European cultural traditions?
a. Sub-Saharan Africa
b. South America
c. North Africa
d. Central Asia

Select some of the cultural traditions found in Sub-Saharan Africa. Analyze their relative networks.
13. What is true about the geography of local networks in this region?
a. they are geographically dispersed
b. they have small numbers of sub-groups
c. they are geographically clustered
d. the whole of the region is connected

14. What other region has African Peoples’ cultural traditions?
a. South America
b. Central America
c. North America
d. All of these

15. What statement is false regarding the geography of African People’s cultural traditions?
a. African cultural traditions were synthesized with a variety of other cultural traditions.
b. The Slave Trade forced the diaspora of African cultural traditions into South and Central America.
c. African cultural traditions have persisted unchanged despite interactions with other culture groups.
d. The United States has had popular culture offshoots of African People’s cultural traditions.