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This contribution suggests that Feminist and Queer Studies, and more explicitly Feminist and Queer cartographies, may contribute widely to an education for Spatial Citizenship, aiming at participation and empowerment. Based on basic competence dimensions of Spatial Citizenship education, the paper explores existing theoretical and empirical work for technical and methodological skills, reflexive geo-media use, and practices of communication and participation. The evidence is systematized in order to suggest a Research Agenda, as well as to provide an overview of educational approaches that may be readily translated to secondary school use.

At the University of Salzburg, a new module links science topics, pedagogy and school practice for students in teacher-training. In a pilot project within this module, an iterative process of curriculum development for the topic of gendered spaces in the city was developed. The approach is based on everyday geomedia use and its implications for the construction of feminine/masculine spaces. This paper reports on the process of linking scientists, student teachers and secondaryschool students, both showing the feasibility of the approach and giving indications of its effectiveness with regard to diversity-sensitive learning.

The pervasive integration of geomedia in urban societies changes the perception and appropriation of space by influencing everyday modes of connectivity while also changing manifestations of power. Geomedia and the resulting datasets thus enable new types of platform capitalism and surveillance, but also possible empowerment. At the current level of 'permanent spatial connectivity', power becomes relational and liquid, and manifests within structures ((machine learning) algorithms and codes) rather than people. (Geo)mediatization theory addresses underlying power relations critically; in this paper, it is complemented by Foucault's theories of power. His conception of power as 'fluid', diffused and disembodied is adopted as a fruitful concept in the analysis of geomedia and spatial practices within digital networks.

<p>The increasing pervasiveness of media in society implies the ubiquitous processes of geodata-capture and real-time feedback. The concept of Geomedia considers these developments and raises the questions of geoprivacy and corporate surveillance. The aim of this study was to investigate what kinds of geolocation data are shared wittingly or unwittingly, and in what contexts. Beyond that, we ask how much individuals know about the data-sharing processes and the underlying commercial logic, and how they act upon this knowledge (whether paradoxically or not). Our study was theoretically framed by contextual privacy (Nissenbaum 2011), because we assumed that a violation of privacy is perceived differently according to the context. The quasi-experimental design (using a WiFi-capture device) combined with a questionnaire revealed the participants’ attitudes to, and awareness of, data sharing, and their understanding of geoprivacy and geomedia use. The main results show that people are aware of the underlying commercial logic, have privacy concerns and, strongly depending on contextual factors, their knowledge and capabilities, act upon this awareness. Finally, we show that smartphones covertly share a huge amount of meta and traffic data.</p>