That was the punch line to a New Yorker cartoon in the mid-1980s, spoken by a bookstore owner standing beside a stack of Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind. Here, I use it as a caveat: I haven't actually read Anne Galloway and Matt Ward's article "Locative Media as Socialising and Spatialising Practices: Learning from Archaeology" (pdf), but the abstract sounds very interesting:
Pervasive computing and locative media are emerging as technologies and processes that promise to reconfigure our understandings and experiences of space and culture. With the critical hand of material and cultural studies, we start to shape questions about locative media representations of urban mobilities, and begin to unearth some of the struggles and tensions that exist within these fields of operation. By looking at archaeology’s constitutive processes of collection, ordering and display we highlight some of the problems found in mapping people and objects in space and time, and ask what kinds of social/spatial relations are made possible in particular locative media projects. Ultimately, we take archaeology’s critical focus on authorship and ownership, explain its relevance to locative media, and suggest questions to consider in the future research and design of locative media.
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