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Hat papaya 780 Posted 7 years ago
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Mediate

Google Earth does this by ‘mashing up’ global satellite imagery, geopositioning coordinates, digital cartography, geolocated data, three-dimensional computerised maps, architectural drawings, street-level digital imagery and other social media, data and software. These are configured together as an ‘always on’, interactive and boundless datascape – a flexible and multiscaled portal of largely vertical images which now mediate life in profoundly new and important ways.

What does the verb "mediate" mean exactly in this context?

  

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hat papaya 780 What does the verb "mediate" mean exactly in this context? It's hard to say. To my ear it's an unusual way to use it.

  • hat papaya 780 What does the verb "mediate" mean exactly in this context?
  • It's hard to say.
  • To my ear it's an unusual way to use it.
  • The basic meaning in the given context seems to be to intervene (in), with the implication that this intervention is helpful.
  • A rough 'translation' might be " ...
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hat papaya 780What does the verb "mediate" mean exactly in this context?

It's hard to say. To my ear it's an unusual way to use it.

The basic meaning in the given context seems to be to intervene (in), with the implication that this intervention is helpful.

A rough 'translation' might be " ... vertical images which now enter into our lives

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