GEOG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Spatial Analysis, Mass Media, Smart City
Week 14
4/23 – Cities as Digital Hybrids
Media and the City
• Mass media: centralized, edited, ad-based, territorially-based, one-way
o Traditional elements of media
• New media: dispersed, customizable, user generated (anybody can contribute), ubiquitous,
multidirectional
o More interactive
• Information vs. communication
o Info = mass
o Comm = new
• Both analog and digital
Locative Media (New Media, Turning Location into Place)
• Urban electronic annotations
o Writig i spae or o the ladsape
o Augmented reality
• Mapping and tracking
o Geotagging photos, tweets, etc.
o Countermapping
• Location-based mobile games
o Geocaching
o Foursquare, Facebook, etc.
o Real-life MMORPGs
▪ Massive multimedia online role playing games
o Pokémon Go
• Filtering devices
o Geofencing
o Selecting some places and not others (ex – picking places thru yelp)
o Allowed into some places and not others
o Always a human and their assumptions behind the algorithms
Locative Media and Cities
• Plaes are ore learl eoig, ot fiished
• Couities do’t hae to be physically close
• Mapmaking power more evenly distributed
• Everyone experiences the city differently
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Document Summary
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