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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.
List of contents
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. Evolving Concepts of Personal Privacy: Locative Media in Online Mobile Spaces Timothy Dwyer 10. Google Glass and Australian Privacy Law: Regulating the Future of Locative Media James Meese 11. Locative Media, Privacy, and State Surveillance in Mexico: The Case of the Geolocalization Law Gerard Goggin and César Albarrán-Torres 12. Seeking Transparency in Locative Media Tama Leaver and Clare Lloyd Part 4: Economies, Networks, Logistics 13. Locating Foursquare: The Political Economics of Mobile Social Software Rowan Wilken and Peter Bayliss 14. Becoming Drones: Smart Phone Probes and Distributed Sensing Mark Andrejevic 15. Locative Media as Logistical Media: Situating Infrastructure and the Governance of Labor in Supply-Chain Capitalism Ned Rossiter 16. Locative Aesthetics and the Actor-Network Michael Dieter
About the author
Rowan Wilken is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Gerard Goggin is Professor and Chair of the Media and Communications Department at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Summary
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.
