Finished reading the second article from Aether on my list by Greg Elmer Locative Networking: Finding and Being Found before falling asleep yesterday still.
The argument (as I understand it) is that locative media studies should broaden its focus from a techno fetish device based one, to a more broad perspective: the way location plays a role on the Internet, and how this changed.
Changes:
1 URL’s tent to not use the more generic domains like .org .com rather that the country based ones .nl, .uk
2 on website companies tent to publish their actual location les and les.
3 more and more activities on the Internet take place in gated communities behind
So if you want to do location-based data mapping on Internet it becomes more and more difficult.
According to the article this is a major theme for Locative Media Studies. But to be honest I don’t see the point. I always find it difficult to keep track when Internet Mapping is presented in the same category as Geobased Mapping. Ok, there is an overlap and the stuff that govcom does is really cool. But I do not thing both practices win from being merged. From a Locative Media point of view one would not really win much from studying importance of presenting address data on websites would one?
I do not see it but I might miss a point…. I get packing to leave for a hike now, and I decide to take with me the Introduction to this Aether issue by Tristan Thielmann, hopefully this introduction sheds a light on the relevance of this matter!