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Invisible Locative Media: Key Considerations at the Nexus of Place and Digital Journalism

Mobility and location-awareness are pervasive and foundational elements of contemporary communication systems, and a descriptive term to synthesize them, "locative media", has gained widespread use throughout mobile media and communication research. That label of “locative media”, though, usually gets defined ad hoc and used in many different ways to express a variety of related ideas. Locative features of digital media increasingly have changed from visible location-driven aspects of user interfaces, such as check-in features and location badges, toward more inconspicuous ways of relating to location through automated backend processes. In turn, locative features - whether in journalism or other formats and content types - are now increasingly algorithmic and hidden “under the hood”, so to speak. Part of the problem with existing classifications or typologies in this field is that they do not take into account this practical shift and the rapid development of locative media in many new directions, intertwining ubiquitous digital integration with heterogeneous content distinctions and divergences. Existing definitions and typologies tend to be based on dated practices of use and initial versions of applications that have changed significantly since inception. To illustrate, this article identifies three emerging areas within digital journalism and mobile media practice that call for further research into the locative dimensions of journalism: the situational turn in news consumption research, platform-specific vis-a-vis platform-agnostic mobile news production, and personalised news.

Invisible Locative Media: Key Considerations at the Nexus of Place and Digital Journalism

Urheber*in: Erdal, Ivar John; Vaage Øie, Kjetil; Oppegaard, Brett; Westlund, Oscar

Namensnennung 4.0 International

ISSN
2183-2439
Umfang
Seite(n): 166-178
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Media and Communication, 7(1)

Thema
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
Kommunikatorforschung, Journalismus
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Digitale Medien
Journalismus
Medien
Nutzung
Kommunikationstechnologie
Nachrichten
Selektion
Personalisierung
Medienverhalten

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Erdal, Ivar John
Vaage Øie, Kjetil
Oppegaard, Brett
Westlund, Oscar
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Portugal
(wann)
2019

DOI
Rechteinformation
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
Letzte Aktualisierung
21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ

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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Beteiligte

  • Erdal, Ivar John
  • Vaage Øie, Kjetil
  • Oppegaard, Brett
  • Westlund, Oscar

Entstanden

  • 2019

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