Locative Media: 22 (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture)

Not only is locative media one of the fastest growing areas in digital technology, but questions of location and location-awareness are increasingly central to our contemporary engagements with online and mobile media, and indeed media and culture generally. This volume is a comprehensive account of the various location-based technologies, services, applications, and cultures, as media, with an aim to identify, inventory, explore, and critique their cultural, economic, political, social, and policy dimensions internationally. In particular, the collection is organized around the perception that the growth of locative media gives rise to a number of crucial questions concerning the areas of culture, economy, and policy.

Rowan Wilken is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

Gerard Goggin is Professor and Chair of the Media and Communications Department at the University of Sydney, Australia.