Mike Duggan holds a PhD in Cultural Geography from Royal Holloway University of London, working in partnership with the Ordnance Survey on studying everyday digital mapping practices.

Mike is primarily interested in the intersections between technology, culture and everyday life. He has studied everyday mapping practices, the lived experiences of the sharing economy and video conferencing platforms. He a director of the Livingmaps Network and the editor-in-chief of the Livingmaps Review, a bi-annual journal for radical and critical cartography, which welcomes a range of submission styles from academics, artists, activists and others interested in maps and mapping practices. His latest book is All Mapped Out, is published by Reaktion Books (2024).

Research Interests

• Critical cartography
• Digital mapping technologies
• Locative media
• Platform urbanism
• Sharing mobilities
• Video conferencing platforms

Teaching

Since 2017 Mike has taught on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Department of Digital Humanities related to digital culture and society.

Selected Publications

• Duggan, M. (2024) All Mapped Out. Reaktion Books. London
• Cohen, P. and Duggan, M. (2021) New Directions in Radical Cartography: Why the Map is Never the Territory. Rowman & Littlefield. London
• Arcidiacono, D. and Duggan, M. (2019). Sharing Mobilities: Questioning Our Right to the City in the Collaborative Economy. Routledge (Foreword by Juliet Schor). London
• Duggan, M. (2019). Cultures of Enthusiasm: An Ethnographic Study of Amateur Map-Maker Communities. Cartographica, 54(3): 217-229.
• Duggan, M. (2017). Questioning ‘Digital Ethnography’ in an Era of Ubiquitous Computing. Geography Compass, 11(5): 1-12.