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

The advent of mobile internet and GPS led some to predict ‘the death of geography’. With information no longer anchored to specific locations, there were concerns that geography would simply dissolve into a placeless, global ‘Space of flows’. However, locative media is now shifting the focus away fr...

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Published in:Media international Australia incorporating Culture & policy 2013-02, Vol.146 (1), p.69-78
Main Authors: Nitins, Tanya, Collis, Christy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Geographical information systems
Geography
Information technology
Internet
Media
Mobile phones
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Summary:The advent of mobile internet and GPS led some to predict ‘the death of geography’. With information no longer anchored to specific locations, there were concerns that geography would simply dissolve into a placeless, global ‘Space of flows’. However, locative media is now shifting the focus away from placeless flows and back to geography. By equipping many mobile phones with GPS, locative media are now ‘grounding the internet’. This article provides an overview of existing literature and research in this field in order to develop a synthetic overview of the various types of locative media, and the geographies arising from them.
ISSN:1329-878X
2200-467X
DOI:10.1177/1329878X1314600110