Locative media

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Locative media or locative media is a generic term for digital media with reference to the real location with the help of technologies for location determination (e.g. global positioning system ) and mobile devices such as mobile phones , laptops or smartphones .

The term was coined by Karlis Kalnins. Locative Media is directly related to Augmented Reality / AR (overlaying the field of vision with computer-generated graphics) and Pervasive Computing (the penetration of everyday life with computers). While AR delivers technical solutions and pervasive computing is interested in embedding computers, Locative Media focuses on social interactions with places and corresponding technical devices.

An example from science fiction literature is provided by William Gibson's Spooky Country ( source code ) from 2007. The concept of locative media is a main theme here.

See also

• Pervasive computing
• Rechnerallgegenwart ( ubiquitous computing )
• Location-based services ( location-based services )

literature

• Galloway, Anne and Matthew Ward (2005): Locative Media as Socializing and Spatialising Practices: Learning from Archeology (DRAFT) . Forthcoming Leonardo Electronic Almanac, MIT Press. ( online ; PDF; 50 kB).
• Daniel Michelis, Hendrik Send, Thomas Schildhauer: Location of data. A prototype research with RFID (Locative Data. Prototype Research with RFID) . i-com Special Issue Knowledge Media Design, 2006, pp. 38-42. ( online ).
• Regine Buschauer, Katharine S. Willis (eds.): Locative Media. Mediality and spatiality. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Media and Locality . Transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-1947-8 .

Web links

• Center for Locative Media Collection of projects that use local media. (English)
• Interactive city experience with digital media (internet, mobile phone and locative media)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anne Galloway: Locative Media As Socializing And Spatializing Practice: Learning From Archeology . In: Leonardo Electronic Almanac , MIT Press, July 2006.