Abstract
This special issue takes up new media in situ, addressing how new media technologies
have the potential to re-orient us and, by extension, radically intervene in our
understandings of place—specifically the public spaces of the city—and our place in it.
We not only explore the specificities of these new media technologies and the cultural
practices they afford but also highlight the intimate relationships they instantiate with
their surroundings. The specific case studies highlighted in the contributors’ essays
discuss gaming in Canada (Engel) and Japan (Hjorth), the traces of racism in South
Carolina (Cooley), the topographical footprint of settler colonialism (Zwicker et al),
Hong Kong pace (Wilmott), and artistic experiments that use the city as a laboratory
(Verhoeff). What holds all of these contributions together is their indebtedness
to creative cartography. This special issue on Urban Cartographies explores the
paradoxes of presence, co-presence and absence as represented on and generated
by our living, mediating screens.
have the potential to re-orient us and, by extension, radically intervene in our
understandings of place—specifically the public spaces of the city—and our place in it.
We not only explore the specificities of these new media technologies and the cultural
practices they afford but also highlight the intimate relationships they instantiate with
their surroundings. The specific case studies highlighted in the contributors’ essays
discuss gaming in Canada (Engel) and Japan (Hjorth), the traces of racism in South
Carolina (Cooley), the topographical footprint of settler colonialism (Zwicker et al),
Hong Kong pace (Wilmott), and artistic experiments that use the city as a laboratory
(Verhoeff). What holds all of these contributions together is their indebtedness
to creative cartography. This special issue on Urban Cartographies explores the
paradoxes of presence, co-presence and absence as represented on and generated
by our living, mediating screens.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1 |
Pages (from-to) | 298–304 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Television and New Media |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2017 |
Keywords
- media cartography
- locative media
- interface
- urban space
- participatory culture
- play
- ambient storytelling