Luis F. ALVAREZ LEÓN
Department of Geography
Assistant Professor
I am a political economic geographer with substantive interests in geospatial data, media, and technologies. My research integrates the geographic, political, and regulatory dimensions of the informational and digital economy. At a high level, this research agenda is motivated by three core questions:
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Department(s)
Geography
Education
- Ph. D. UCLA
- M.A. UCLA
- B.A. UNAM, Mexico
Selected Publications
23. Rosen, J. & Alvarez León, L.F. (2022). "The Digital Growth Machine: Urban Change and the Ideology of Technology". Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
22. Alvarez León, L.F. & Aoyama, Y. (2022). "Industry Emergence and Market Capture: The Rise of Autonomous Vehicles". Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
21. Bennett, M., Chen, K.J., Alvarez León, L.F. & Gleason, C.J. (2022). "The politics of pixels: A review and agenda for critical remote sensing". January 2022. Progress in Human Geography.
20. Alvarez León, L.F. (2021). "Artificial Intelligence and the Capitalist Space Economy". Space and Polity, 25(2), 220-236.
DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13562576.2021.1985852