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Walking Through The Screen. Digital Media on The Go

Author

Summary, in English

How can locomotion be combined with the use of screen based digital devices? This paper deals with the ways that GPS (Global Positioning System) is integrated with the mundane practices of wayfinding and moving on foot. I’ve mainly studied how handheld GPS-devices are used by so called geo-cachers. The paper focus on ideas about cognition, spatial awareness and locomotion, and discuss how complex technological systems may slip in and out of the inconspicuous backdrop of everyday

life.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Publication/Series

Preprint without journal information

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Manne Siegbahn Institute

Topic

  • Ethnology

Keywords

  • mundane
  • mobility
  • wayfinding
  • digital media
  • GPS
  • the everyday
  • Tim Ingold
  • landscape
  • geocaching
  • cultural geography
  • ethnography
  • place
  • space
  • satellite navigation
  • new media
  • nature

Status

Unpublished

Project

  • Home made: the cultural dynamics of the inconspicuous

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0348-7911