Blog #3: Locative Media:
New technologies have changed our sense of space, location, and community because its so easy to now know who is where. It's kind of creepy how the information is out there for anyone to see. The information is too public. With programs like Foursquare and being able to "check-in" to different locations on it and on Facebook, people are more willing to expose their location. Giving out this information gives a sense of community because you're willing to let people know where they are and what they’re doing, sort of telling people to join them. Not all locative media is necessarily creepy. Having all this information in the palm of your hand has changed our sense of location because we have apps that allow us to access a map any where we are. Finding directions or finding a place to go for dinner can be done in a matter of seconds. Our sense of location is now limitless because we can easily find out how to get from one place to the next. The Bike Box Locative project, I mentioned on the blog previously, and the projects that were highlighted in class have also changed our sense of community because it makes us aware of the people around us and how the space we are in gives people different experiences. I enjoy those kinds of locative media projects because they are educational and community driven, but those projects like Foursquare, although beneficial to the locations where people “check-in”, become somewhat of an evasion of privacy which I do not think is a good idea.
~Karina Avellaneda~
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