New Media and New Publics: An Example with Polar Bears

Etienne Benson is a historian of science, technology, and environment in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. In this guest post he describes his interactive web-based map plotting publicly available government data about who has applied for polar bea...

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Main Author: Benson, Etienne S
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Published: ScholarlyCommons 2013
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Online Access:https://repository.upenn.edu/hss_papers/39
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&context=hss_papers
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Summary:Etienne Benson is a historian of science, technology, and environment in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. In this guest post he describes his interactive web-based map plotting publicly available government data about who has applied for polar bear trophy import permits, and its implications.