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dc.contributor.authorGazzard, Alison
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-22T11:01:10Z
dc.date.available2011-12-22T11:01:10Z
dc.date.issued2011-11
dc.identifier.citationGazzard , A 2011 , Locating the local/mapping the network . in Procs of 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art : ISEA 2011 . Int Symposium on Electronic Art , Istanbul , Turkey , 14/09/11 . < https://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/ >
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dc.identifier.otherPURE: 459154
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/7498
dc.descriptionOriginal paper can be found at: http://doc.gold.ac.uk/isea2011/ocs/index.php/isea2011/index/schedConfs/archive This paper has been published under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence
dc.description.abstractEric Gordon (2009) writes of “network locality – the experience of interacting with located data within the perceived infinity of global access” (p. 22). The smartphone, alongside the rise of digital mapping systems such as Google Maps and Open Street Maps, has seen the increasing need for people to locate their activities. Photographs can be geo-located, capturing places frozen in time, and we can now log-in to virtual equivalents of shops, work buildings, or our own homes with applications such as FourSquare and Gowalla. Each of these instances is only possible through an underlying network of global connections. However, in doing so, they are also changing the mapped narrative of local areas. The map is more than a means of seeking directions, but allows for a visualisation of data in various formats. This paper will focus on mapped data collected from areas local to the GPS co-ordinates of each data collection. FourSquare places, ephemeral geo-located tweets and geotagged photographs will be visualised against a background of a local map. Each area will be defined in terms of a community or town, and will be viewed as an isolated snapshot, depicted as a miniature mapped landscape in amongst the surrounding area. The project seeks to understand the changing landscape of each local area by analysing what John Pickles (2004) defines as "socio-spatial identities" that he sees to be the basis of many contemporary maps as "digital mapping has begun to influence many more domains of social life" (p. 10). Whereas most location-based applications seek to define the user’s position in amongst a global network, this project examines the changing narratives of the local area through numerous check-ins, tweets and images. The changing nature of the map is captured at different points in time as a way of analysing the ephemeral landscape of data depicting the opinions, locations and imagery left as digital memories or tokens by those within the area. The narrative of place takes precedence over the identity of the user as places and spaces are re-examined in light of this user-generated content.en
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProcs of 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
dc.titleLocating the local/mapping the networken
dc.contributor.institutionSocial Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Creative Arts
dc.contributor.institutionArt and Design
dc.contributor.institutionMedia Research Group
dc.identifier.urlhttps://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/
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