Locative Media

Question #3 – Locative Media – how have new technologies changed our sense of space (personal and private), location and community?

New technologies have changed our sense of personal and private space in many ways. One way is by allowing us to engage in some sort of communication from far and short distances. An example would be the telephone; the phone allows us to talk with computers and with each other at our own convenience. Today programs like SKYPE, and many of our hand held wireless phones are used in the same way as a land line phone but with more functions. One function is Goble Positioning System with GPS your location is tracked and recorded for various reasons. A good example would be the North Star System for GPS travel in cars; this system will call for help if needed automatically in an event of an accident. The military uses it to navigate and locate vital object while in and out theater. Consumers today use it as entertainment by redirecting their intended uses into either art of studies for new media. While using locative media in so many different ways a map has been made and the space around us becomes more familiar or realized to be in existents, therefore the way communication takes place and why is changing.
Montes Carrasquillo