‘Grounding the Internet’: Categorising the Geographies of Locative Media

Nitins, Tanya; Collis, Christy

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“…Cyberspace is everted: we carry digital connectivity around in our pockets and the digital becomes palimpsestically layered over or meshed with the physical world. Locative services strengthen this emplaced connectivity (DeNicola, 2012; Hjorth and Gu, 2012; Nitins and Collis, 2013; Özkul and Humphreys, 2015; Wilken and Goggin, 2013). Smartphone users ‘check in’ to places they visit and geotag the content they share, connecting with other users and creating a self-archive or ‘memobile’ (Reading, 2009: 81) of their spatial trajectories.…”

Section: Digital Place and Placelessnessmentioning

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Cyberplace: From fantasies of placelessness to connective emplacement

Halstead

2021

Memory Studies

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Digital memories have often been interpreted – both pejoratively and positively – as free-floating and placeless. On the one hand, digital technology is dismissed for creating a placeless sameness and meaninglessness: memories cut loose from the distinctive places in which they were formed and which gave them meaning. On the other hand, it is celebrated for creating a progressive placelessness in which memories may develop unencumbered by the restrictions, antagonisms and exclusivity of boundaries, borders and rootedness. Yet, an increasingly everted and pervasive 21st century Internet – and the rise of mobile and locative technologies – challenge the notion that place is significant to digital memory only in its absence. Digital memories are also personal and local memories, which are both marked by the contours of existing place politics and social geographies, and capable of reshaping these contours into new, heterogeneous and dynamic place-making. This is cyberplace: malleable, shifting, often disorientating; but also textured, uneven and located.

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Section: Digital Place and Placelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyberplace: From fantasies of placelessness to connective emplacement

Halstead

2021

Memory Studies

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“…Although navigation has always been, to an extent, instrumental in purpose, the self‐orientating nature of GNSS coupled with functionality that offers the fastest or most direct routes has amplified its instrumentality. The risk is thus that, “One is physically present but is absorbed by a technologically mediated world of elsewhere” (Gergen, , p. 227), such that users become “cloistered” from participating in the (non‐digital) social world (Nitins & Collis, ). In contrast, non‐digital navigational methods oblige the way‐finder to situate her‐/himself in her/his environment, using visual and social observations to help “make sense” of their position.…”

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“Are we losing our way?” Navigational aids, socio‐sensory way‐finding and the spatial awareness of young adults

McCullough

Collins

2018

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Recent advances in the accessibility and reliability of mobile technologies, roaming services and associated data have led to an increased use of modern navigational devices using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). This paper reports on a study that explored concerns about over‐reliance on these navigational technologies, specifically among young people in the Global North. Based on an experiment in which participants were asked to navigate a series of different (unfamiliar) routes on foot, using different navigational technologies each time, we argue that routes navigated are more memorable, and the process of way‐finding is more enjoyable, when navigational tools/methods enable sensory and social interactions. GNSS aids, although claimed by participants as their preferred navigational aid, were the least enabling in this regard. We conclude that, although concerns about young people's way‐finding abilities may be overstated, the importance of sensory and social interactions with(in) environments might usefully be borne in mind in the development of future GNSS aids and locative media.

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“…Gergen criticizes mobile media for mentally removing people from their physical world: "One is physically present but is absorbed by a technologically mediated world of elsewhere" (2002, p. 227). Nitins and Collis (2013) argue that the customization and locative features of mobile media allow people to create a pre-determined individual world that cloisters them from participating in public space. These critiques have become so prominent in academic and public discourse that a 2014 episode of The Simpsons even parodied these concerns.…”

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Which Way is Up?

Farrelly

2015

International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction

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Despite the growing prominence of locative media, its potential influence on our relationships to our places has not been well understood. Based on previous studies, this paper argues that locative media can affect our spatial relationships in various ways and thereby improve our sense of place. To understand how this can be accomplished it is important to examine the features and affordances of the medium along with user practices and outcomes in relation to place. A brief history of locative media is offered to demonstrate a progression from an early focus on wayfinding to current applications that offer a variety of place-related experiences. Subsequent sections outline four qualities about locative media that combine to differentiate it from other media in regards to place, which are its interactivity, reach, mobility, and vocality. The possible user outcomes of social navigation, autobiographical insideness, defamiliarization and refamiliarlization, and spatial interaction are examined as ways in which locative media can enhance sense of place.

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‘Grounding the Internet’: Categorising the Geographies of Locative Media

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Cyberplace: From fantasies of placelessness to connective emplacement

Cyberplace: From fantasies of placelessness to connective emplacement

“Are we losing our way?” Navigational aids, socio‐sensory way‐finding and the spatial awareness of young adults

Which Way is Up?

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