Locative Media [Paperback]

Not only is locative media one of the fastest growing areas in digital technology, but questions of location and location-awareness are increasingly central to our contemporary engagements with online and mobile media, and indeed media and culture generally. This volume is a comprehensive account of the various location-based technologies, services, applications, and cultures, as media, with an aim to identify, inventory, explore, and critique their cultural, economic, political, social, and policy dimensions internationally. In particular, the collection is organized around the perception that the growth of locative media gives rise to a number of crucial questions concerning the areas of culture, economy, and policy.

Introduction:Locative Media: Histories, Theories Rowan Wilken and Gerard Goggin  Part 1: Practices, Publics, Spaces  2. Intimate Cartographies of the Visual: Camera Phones, Locative Media, and Intimacy in Kakao Larissa Hjorth  3. Mobile Communication Technologies and Spatial Perception: Mapping London Didem Ozkul  4. The Social Media Life of Public Spaces: Reading Places Through the Lens of Geo-Tagged Data Raz Schwartz and Nadav Hochman  5. Locative Praxis: Mobile Activism and the Locative Sphere Andrea Zeffiro  Part 2: Geography, Code, Representation 6. Map Interfaces and the Production of Locative Media Space Jason Farman  7. Locating Media, Performing Spatiality: A Non-Representational Approach to Locative Media Federica Timeto  8. The Cluster Diagram: A Topological Analysis of Locative Networking Carlos Barreneche  Part 3: Information, Privacy, Policy  9.lcb