Locative Media - Science topic

The scale of international migration is growing day by day, and the issue of refugees constitutes a significant agenda item for all countries. In today's digital age, characterized by technological advancements, refugees are also benefiting from the advantages of technology. With various applications downloaded to their mobile phones, refugees can...

This article reports on lessons learned from the first phase of an ongoing multimodal project aimed at promoting digital and environmental literacy in concert with access and accessibility on our university's main campus. We discuss an emerging, student-led locative media project, built to increase engagement with the North Woods, an approximately...

As a locative media, Blued articulates physical and digital space in the form of localization, giving a mediated visibility to its users who are not visible in physical space, thus making the city a queering code/space. This can transform social accessibility and the ways that gays come together and interact in local spaces. Taking mainland China,...

Location-based games are a highly technology-dependent game genre that has witnessed an exponential increase in popularity with the democratisation of smartphones as well as ubiquitous mobile data and access to satellite navigation. Moving forward into the future, location-based games can be expected to evolve as the technologies underlying the gen...

Traditional location-based advertising (LBA), such as billboards and signage, has long been a staple of direct-to-consumer advertising. In recent years, however, the prominence and popularity of location-based games have made digital LBA even more appealing. This paper draws on an original research project devised to explore a notable gap in the li...

Over the course of two years, a team of researchers collaborated with the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IBB) in a joint research endeavor. The project aimed to leverage a substantial 30-gigabyte dataset containing information on more than 265 million mass transit journeys to serve public interest, with a particular emphasis on enhancing the u...

A partire dagli anni Novanta del secolo scorso, l’era dei media mobili e dei dispositivi portatili di geolocalizzazione ha introdotto un nuovo approccio alla digitalizzazione dello spazio e alla sua rappresentazione in tempo reale, permettendo di includere la fisicità performativa dell’artista come elemento di un sistema complesso e situato. L’arti...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reading as a cultural practice was deeply woven into daily life and informed critical aspects of society. However, scholars often lament the lack of evidence available to reconstruct historical audiences of popular culture, and thus to understand how these texts shaped readers, and ultimately, the broader...

Data-driven approaches are widely used to gain insight in urban dynamics and support urban decisions with pervasive adoption of information technologies. In the presented study, the students adopt data data-driven approaches to observe, and analyze public spaces, and make conceptual decisions for urban furniture in the context of the workshop. This...

This research delves into the digital reproductions of a specific monument in locative media employing Walter Benjamin’s conceptual framework presented in ‘The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility’. The monument in question, namely, the recently reconstructed and rescaled Atatürk, His Mother and Women’s Right Monument in İzmi...

The paper explores Google Maps’ COVID-19 layer, a special feature launched by the cartographic platform in September 2020, and shut down two years later. Through the reading of promotional corporate blogposts and interfacial analysis of the layer, it critiques the layers' mediation of the pandemic, caught between public health needs and Google's ov...

From Donna Haraway’s 2007 critique of crittercam wildlife documentaries, to Natasha Seegret’s 2016 analysis of canine mounted action cameras, as a form of collaborative film making, the phenomena of animal-eye video is now firmly embedded in our psyche. In this paper I discuss the employment of the action camera and locative media, not as a tool of...

The mobile ontology of locative media and ubiquity of location-aware technologies have led to an explicit focus on “where” and an implicit focus on “when” in geomedia studies. While welcoming this focus, we argue that this spatial bias has led the temporal dimensions of geomedia to be overlooked. Despite the growing interest that draws academic att...

Location data is used in many aspects of journalism today. For example, journalists can identify the number of COVID-19 cases by neighborhood, map those, and then share hot spots with their audiences. They can break down political allegiances, block by block, and predict elections. They can tag location data on reported events and filter those to p...

In this paper, we analyze some of the platforms and technologies that influence the manner in which we interact and experience historical sites and heritage. Acknowledging that history is a constructed narration of the past, this paper demonstrates how contemporary technologies have agency in reconstructing histories in the present via digital plat...

In this paper, I attempt to express the connection between (i) audio walks—that is, movement-based geo-locative or technologically-mediated sound interventions in public spaces— and (ii) the Deleuzian and Guattarian concepts of nomadism and the rhizome. On the one hand, I seek to illustrate how site-specific, interactive artistic works that draw on...

Locative media art has been a popular topic to study, yet the focus tends to be on examining the artworks themselves, which have challenged us to think about the complex interrelations of space, place and time in novel ways. In this paper we offer a different view of locative media art by examining the community practices that can emerge through th...

The relationship between governments and their citizens has changed with the rise of ICTs. Even if these changes can strengthen the active role of society in the control and participation of public administration, there is a risk that this process can increase exclusion especially in developing countries, mainly because a large part of the populati...

Mit der App Hidden Hamburg liegt ein kostenloses und zweisprachiges An­ge­bot zu einer Stadttour im Hamburg des Jahres 1686 vor. Die App ist ein digita­les Experiment, das historisches story telling als „erlebbare Geschich­te“ mal anders akzentuiert: bequem am Computer-Bildschirm daheim oder als echte Stadttour durch Hamburg mit GPS-Tracking und ei...

The Research Group Realidades - from tangible realities to ontological realities - was created in 2010 and is based at the School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, accredited by the Institution and CNPq, Brazil. It already has a huge production, from artistic works, texts, interviews, events organization, and other technical prod...

We investigate locative media apps-location-based apps on mobile devices-and their potential to change how individuals experience urban settings. We argue that locative media further lead toward networked individualism. Networked individualism describes a shift toward multiple, shifting social networks rather than belonging to closely-bounded and o...

“In a short amount of time, drones have become a ubiquitous technology. And while scholarly attention has been focused on commercial and military contexts, the recreational drone has been relatively overlooked. That is, until Aerial Play: Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication and Culture. Aerial Play addresses some of the complex debates around quo...

Digital media technologies increasingly affect how people interact with their environment and has led to rising levels of indoor screen time. In this study we examine how locative media technologies, such as GPS, can lead to meaningful leisure and learning experiences for human development in an outdoor setting. Our purpose is to understand the rol...

Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since pragmatics deals with communication in context and how more gets communicated than is said (or typed), applications of this li...

Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since pragmatics deals with communication in context and how more gets communicated than is said (or typed), applications of this li...

Integrating concepts and techniques from ethnomethodology and sociomaterialism, this article investigates the observable material processes involving human action and place‐based contexts of language use enabled by locative media. The focal pedagogical intervention utilized mobile augmented reality (AR) activities, the development of which was insp...

At the centre of this article is iNakba, a digital navigational application created by a Tel Aviv-based NGO in 2014. The app superimposes a layer of ruined Palestinian localities destroyed following the 1948 war, on top of the established and hegemonic Israeli geographical representation. At the end of this war and with the formation of the State o...

This article discusses the themes crowdsourcing, design management and smart cities, based on unsystematic and systematic bibliographic review. The growing use of locative media related to the urban space and its use demands from designers a new role in designing products and services for cities. Studies in progress focus on companies, with the use...

Finalizada la Revolución Digital del siglo XX, la tecnología locative media georreferencia en nuestros días la capa digital y se afana en la construcción de la ciudad aumentada. Su acceso y percepción por la ciudadanía se produce a través de los dispositivos electrónicos en cuyo modelo de comunicación de máxima interacción destaca el concepto de cu...

This study examines how text-based mobile communication practices are performatively constructed as individuals compose messages key-by-key on virtual keyboards, and how these synchronous performances (Mobile interface theory: embodied space and locative media. New York, NY: Routledge) reflect the iterative process of constructing and maintaining i...

This article shares lessons from designing EcoTour, a multimedia environmental advocacy project in a state park, and it describes theoretical, practical, and pedagogical connections between locative media and community-engaged design. While maps can help share information about places, people, and change, they also limit how we visualize complex st...

This article examines textual artifacts surrounding Google Lens, an image recognition application, to reveal how it forwards reductive representations of the complex sets of relations constituted through locative media and augmented reality. Working across textual and posthumanist traditions, this article introduces a theoretical approach for inves...

Mobile phones play a crucial role in mapping by its users in collaboration with the internet and global positioning system (GPS). This helps in the production and optimization for individual viewer-specific “locative media.” This usage goes beyond locating a physical address in order to become a creative description of the place with mobile filming...

In this article, I will explore the role of field recordings that emerge from the culturally characteristic soundscapes of different communities and the narratives of the people that comprise them. These soundscapes will be hereafter called socialscapes, and I will outline the different ways in which they can be combined with geo-locative sound art...

Τhis editorial introduces a portfolio of essays, interviews, videos and images, based on the 2019 Data-Stories Confestival in Volos, Greece. I present four experimental genres showcased at that event—the anthropological role-playing game, the locative media walk, desktop documentary, live participant film—as ethnographic “data-stories”. Overspillin...

All set, then let's begin…by imagining this. By imagining yourself jumping, jumping and falling, free falling in the 15,000 feet of empty airspace above you now adjusting pitch and roll and yawl with outstretched arms and legs, for sixty seconds, face down an aerial view of this place, birdseye…' This is how the Hibaldstow track of Mike Pearson's m...

Livingmaps Event: Talking A Walk On The Wild Side WHEN: December 16 2020, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT TICKETS : https://wildsidemaps.eventbrite.co.uk This is the third event in the programme FRONT LINES, BACK YARDS – Monthly online events exploring the local frontlines of our multiple crises and drawing on the innovative forms of social and cultural map...

This article serves as an introduction to the 'deep map reference tool' available to download free here - https://www.livingmaps.org/the-deep-map-app. Aimed at those making immersive but embodied GPS-triggered app walks using digital content (for example sound, images and film) it can also guide those making MP3 experiences.

This deep map app reference tool guides the reader through the thought, planning and decisions faced by artists, practitioners, producers and commissioners of deep map apps-GPS-triggered smartphone apps that connect the user to the location. Recommendations at the end point to further reading and projects to test on location as well as to listen to...

Social accessibility involves the capacity of a person to be reached by other people, typically through established social networks. Locative media provide new complications to the issue of social accessibility in urban spaces. They do not connect people with their existing social networks, but rather with people – often strangers – immediately aro...

With Quotidian Record (2012), I interpret a year’s worth of my own geolocation data, gathered via mobile phone, as a musical piece on a vinyl record. This chapter describes the process behind the piece and explores some of its critical implications. Dominant modes of data-driven, locative media practice draw from visual and cartographic paradigms—Q...

Mobile phone location data have become tied to understandings of and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data visualizations have used mobile phone data to inform people about how mobility practices may be linked to the spread of the virus, and governments have explored contact tracing that relies upon mobile phone data. This article examines how t...

This experience report shares lessons learned from a multi-staged prototyping process, over a five-year period, that involved the creation and iterative development of a mobile platform and dozens of prototype examples of interactive locative-media artifacts, including locative journalism. Thematically linked to a public art collection, the mobile...

Together with the artwork titled ‘No Man’s Land’ that was exhibited in the ANTARA exhibition, this paper presents an understanding of properties and attributes of presence and how they manifest through locative media. Building on the ideology of existentialism, the author equates the performativity of locative media with the intentionality to move....

As an image and location sharing platform, Instagram offers intimate visual access to events, experiences and situations in a manner that is mobile and contextual. Partnering with Australian Red Cross, this paper develops a mixed methodology for using Instagram data to identify and understand individuals’ everyday humanitarian activity in a major u...

The disciplines of architecture, media studies, urban design, city planning, lighting design, digital design, urban studies, and art represented here, apply a range of paradigms and methods in addressing media-related phenomena. Such diversity makes a critical synthesis both stimulating from a perspective of reflecting on some relatively unfamiliar...

This paper is about the possible social consequences attributable to a new form of media-facilitated space constitution, arising out of an increasing fusion of physical with virtual spaces. This transformation is caused by a new generation of smartphone apps, which foster the cyber-physical merging of the perception and appropriation of public spac...

This contribution intends to analyze the relationship between the practice of geolocation, through mobile devices and social media, and the management of events having a particularly traumatic impact on a community. The study concerns the earthquake that struck central Italy on August 2016 and in particular the town of Amatrice, with a focus on the...

The present issue of Ocula, edited by Federico Montanari, Nicola Dusi and Guido Ferraro, intends to investigate a new and yet topical issue, one which is in constant transformation: the vast field of locative media and their intertwining with data and their definition. The diverse approaches have moved from semiotics to socio-semiotics and contempo...

This article deals with the peculiarities of typical Instagram photographs (use of blurring, "filters" that decrease the chromatic range, and so on), in relation with the idea that these images should represent with immediacy the flow of life, as well as in relation with the use of geolocalized media, and the consequent ambition to create a sort of...

The feminine artistic production of the Brazilian Amazon, by provoking the constant interaction between art, technology and nature, has expanded the regional artistic sensitivity by updating it in themes, poetics and artistic supports. Such poetics promoted forms of more direct relations of the contemporary visual artists with the North region. Thi...

With the increase of sonic life in digital spaces, new platforms for the exhibition of sound are emerging; from multisensory web interfaces, open access databases, apps for playing with sound, to experimental locative and geo-located pieces. From iPods, mobile phones, and noise cancelling headphones, new technological tools are constantly remediati...

In this article, I discuss camera drones as mobile media that help access, collect, and shape physical, digital, and social spaces. As such, consumer drones afford “communication on the fly” in their medium-specific configuration of aerial navigation, visual production, and networked communication. Drawing on in-depth interviews with drone users an...

The development of affordable, smartphone-based GPS functionality has dramatically transformed heritage interpretation, field studies, and tourism by allowing for the automatic triggering and playback of interpretive content based on physical location. When properly integrated, location-based technologies provide unparalleled opportunities for self...

The relationship between governments and their citizens has changed with the rise of ICTs. Even if these changes can strengthen the active role of society in the control and participation of public administration, there is a risk that this process can increase exclusion especially in developing countries, mainly because a large part of the populati...

This chapter describes a thought experiment in which a modern-day Georges Perec, equipped with a smartphone and actively committed to the use of mobile locative media such as Foursquare, would make an Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris today. The chapter argues that the initial project epitomized the way the neutral gaze of the onlooker is cons...

We live in an age in which digital media is omnipresent and augmented reality is beginning to find its way into our everyday lives, GPS allows us to determine our position with meter precision and the sensor capabilities of smartphones are increasing. All these technologies in combination enable us to explore one of the oldest human art forms in a...

Mobility and location-awareness are pervasive and foundational elements of contemporary communication systems, and a descriptive term to synthesize them, "locative media", has gained widespread use throughout mobile media and communication research. That label of "locative media", though, usually gets defined ad hoc and used in many different ways...

Cartography is one of the oldest forms of media. With cartography and media, meaning, ideology, and power are habitually arbitrated across and through space and time. Media has an underlying mapping impulse – a proclivity to comprehend itself and be rendered comprehensible through metaphors of topologies, networks, and flows that lead to the consta...

Resumo: O objetivo do presente artigo é analisar os sentidos conceituais dos processos computacionais e de que forma eles se relacionam e afetam, ou até mesmo constituem, novas formas de processos comunicacionais, provocando modificações no âmbito das teorias da comunicação.O texto apresenta questões relacionadas à desterritorialização dos espaços...

Este trabajo explora la combinación del aprendizaje formal e informal junto con los principios de los medios locativos; hemos observado el potencial de este tipo específico de medios para reforzar y expandir los objetivos de aprendizaje fuera del tiempo de clase, dotando a los estudiantes de actitudes de aprendizaje permanente. Presentamos los hall...

Inside Outside Battery is a mobile media sound art installation for smartphone technologies that uses global positioning system (GPS) locative software to narrate walking visitors through the Battery, a heritage neighbourhood of St. John’s (Newfoundland, Canada). Auditory tourists, or soundwalkers, come to know the aural cultures of the Battery thr...

This work discusses how locative media and the democratization of geoprocessing technologies have reconfigured our experience with the urban space, opening up new territories for the construction of the public. It also discusses perspectives and challenges that speculative practices with locative media bring to disciplines such as design, architect...

The integration of geolocative data and locative photography generates a new way of seeing: what is called ‘emplaced visuality’. This article explores the features and the research advancements in the direction of the visual aspects of locative media and geomedia to expand on the understanding of what appears to be a new visual regime. To do this,...

Research across the social sciences testifies to an ongoing relationship between queerness and digital technology. This article tracks how different online spaces for queer men have changed as the internet has developed over the past 30 years. It argues that queer spaces have become increasingly dominated by, and predicated on, internet technology....

Foursquare was a mobile social networking application that enabled people to share location with friends in the form of “check-ins.” The visualization of surrounding known social connections as well as unknown others has the potential to impact how people coordinate social encounters and forge new social ties. While many studies have explored mobil...

Foursquare was a mobile social networking application that enabled people to share location with friends in the form of “check-ins.” The visualization of surrounding known social connections as well as unknown others has the potential to impact how people coordinate social encounters and forge new social ties. While many studies have explored mobil...

This study explores how US Latina girls, in Central Texas, may develop a stronger sense of place and belonging through the grasping and crafting of locative literature. This work presents the results of a field study, in which training about locative narratives and locative media was provided during two different occasions. Firstly, a four-day work...

In the beginning of this research we try to study the literature and philosophical foundations of situationist international (SI) and their approaches to urban concepts. Some of the most important keywords of their literature are unitary urbanism, psychogeography, derive and everyday life. Following their path to the 21st century lead us to bunch o...

The paper presents reflections on understanding the issues of designing locative sonic memory-scapes. As physical space and digital media become ever more intertwined, together forming and augmenting meaning and experience, we need methods to further explore possible ways in which physical places and intangible personal content can be used to devel...

In this article, we describe findings and methodological implications from a research through design (RtD) process conducted as part of larger research project in Istanbul, Turkey. The project aimed to identify and valorise alternative heritage narratives from communities around Istanbul concerning a UNESCO heritage site, The Theodosian Land Walls....

Existing platforms for sharing locative digital content rely on the use of mobile phones for accessing the content. This can be a major deterrent to wider public access and also hinders immediacy and 'in the moment' discoverability. Building on previous work in situated public installations, we developed Pinsight, a novel platform for enabling end-...

Spatial thinking has constituted an area of growing interest-mostly known as 'spatial turn'-among contemporary art, academia and society, yet such a fascination does not constitute an ephemeral trend. Humans tend to think spatially; something apparent through the use of metaphors, conceptual diagrams and most importantly our own body and in-situ ex...

Many outdoor spaces have hidden stories connected with them that can be used for enriching a tourist's experience. Previous work on locative media has suggested to include these stories by guiding users to relevant places through positioning technology. However, stories are often related to environmental features which are far from the user, far ap...

With the rise of geo-social media, location is emerging as a particularly sensitive data point for big data and digital media research. To explore this area, we reflect on our ethics for a study in which we analyze data generated via an app that facilitates public sex among men who have sex with men. The ethical sensitivities around location are fu...

On a busy Saturday afternoon in London, I'm out with a friend, Emma, and her son, Charlie, who is just about 18 months old. Charlie needs a new pair of shoes, and the closest place we can get some shoes is the disturbingly crowded Carnaby Street. The plan is to find the closest shop that sells kids' shoes, and while I keep an eye on Charlie and ent...

The main purpose of this essay is to present and discuss a hypothesis concerning the semiotic and cultural transformation of the ideas of ‘map’ and ‘mapping’. Today, in our society, maps work more like navigation logs than traditional charts. What does this mean and what does this new dimension of mapping mean? We will try to investigate these issu...

As locative media and augmented reality swell into mainstream culture, this article traces my creative explorations with locative sound, stretching across a decade of practice. The featured projects are all embedded into larger research initiatives, which are designed to explore the value of acoustic ecology as a socially engaged, accessible and in...

The ethical and social implications of data mining, algorithmic curation and automation in the context of social media have been of heightened concern for a range of researchers with interests in digital media in recent years, with particular concerns about privacy arising in the context of mobile and locative media. Despite their wide adoption and...

Over the past two decades, geospatial technologies have increasingly and profoundly influenced how everyday users conceive the space around them and how they navigate their ever-converging physical and virtual environments. These geospatial technologies have become both ubiquitous and mundane, and can be seen embodied in the GPS-enabled smartphone...

Yik Yak was a location-based social application that allowed users to anonymously create, read, and respond to posts made within a few mile radius. This paper reports on six months of ethnographic work and interviews performed with 18 Yik Yak users. We argue that one of Yik Yak’s primary functions was to communicate about place and to find new ways...

Reggiane Urban Gallery is a virtual museum based on the abandoned industrial plant of ex-Officine Reggiane in Reggio Emilia, now in restoration. Along the years the place has become an open space for local and national street-artists. The aim of this paper is to analyze the use of virtual reality and navigable interface as a solution for the conser...

Spatial and locative media, Internet archives and on-line and interactive maps using positioning and cartographic visualization technologies allow a migration of urban art, from which often nothing remains except in the memory of the web. This migration makes the invisible in all cities visible, by determining a reduction of the boundaries between...

A game installation is a game that incorporates the surrounding environment, something that has mostly been explored on a city-wide scale. This paper concerns the creation of a game installation set within a room, and explores locative media, mixed reality games and the fourth wall. A framework for game installations has been designed and tested wi...

Abstract - link in text The paper presents reflections on understanding the issues of designing of locative sonic memory-scapes. As physical space and digital media become ever more intertwined, together forming and augmenting meaning and experience, we need methods to further explore possible ways in which physical places and intangible personal c...