Eurygaster maurus (L.) excluded from the fauna of Finland (Heteroptera, Scutelleridae)

Entomologica Fennica. Vol. 3:111. 31.VIII.199

Digital mapping interfaces : from immutable mobiles to mutable images

In this article, I discuss how digital mapping interfaces ask users to engage with images on screens in far more performative and active ways and how this changes the immutable status of the map image. Digital mapping interfaces invite us to touch, talk and move with them, actions that have a reciprocal effect on the look of the image of the map. Images change constantly through absorbing our mobile and physical actions. I approach digital mapping interfaces as mediators: They do not so much collect information as create spatial transformations for the user of the interface, thus instigating new moves on his or her part that are fed once again into the interface. I argue that it is therefore short-sighted to view digital mapping interfaces as mere points of passage. They are better understood as mediators that create spatial meanings by translating between and inviting movements of users, vehicles, programs and so on

Maps of the provincial distribution of Finnish Heteroptera

The distribution of Finnish Heteroptera (475 species) in biogeographical provinces is mapped, and their phenological pattern is presented, together with notes on the biology of some of the species. The most important faunistic literature on Finnish Heteroptera is listed

Landmarks: Navigating Spacetime and Digital Mobility

In this essay we will examine how we can conceptualize digital mobility as spatial navigation. Digital mobility occurs in media where the user navigates through space and actually becomes, simultaneously, creator, performer, and navigator of a spatial story. In this sense, the on-screen navigator simultaneously makes and reads space. We argue that in digital mobilities the user/player becomes simultaneously I-narrator, actor and agent of narrative. The user navigates through space and becomes, in fact, a digital pedestrian. Different from the (virtual) mobility of analogue moving-image media in that the interaction between user and space is much more fluid and the user becomes both actor and navigator, digital mobility is clearly central to the use of mobile screens, such as mobile phones, navigation devices, or portable game consoles in which case one carries the screen and interacts with it, while being on the move. Moreover, we also believe that digital mobility can be a central quality of certain digital practices during which users are not literally on the move but still have to navigate through, and control digital environments through spatial interaction. This can for example be the case when playing certain games or consulting Google Earth on a desktop computer

New and corrected records on distribution of Finnish Heteroptera

Entomologica Fennica. Vol. 4:19. 29.III.199

Mapping inclusive growth

[Introduction ...] Building on the ongoing debate on inclusive growth, we provide an empirical analysis of changes in inclusiveness in 43 developing countries from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. The analysis includes three core aspects of inclusiveness: poverty and inequality as outcome dimensions and employment as a dimension pertaining more centrally to process but also accounting for outcome. By mapping changes in inclusiveness, the analysis offers a window onto recent transformations in the developing world