Cultural Economies of Locative Media

by Rowan Wilken

Location, location-awareness, and location data have all become familiar and increasingly significant parts of our everyday mobile-mediated experiences. Cultural Economies of Locative Media examines the ways in which location-based services, such as GPS-enabled mobile smartphones, are socially, culturally, economically, and politically produced just as much as they are technically designed and manufactured. Rowan Wilken explores the complex interrelationships...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190234911
• ISBN13: 9780190234911
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"