Geomedia: on location-based media, the changing status of collective image production and the emergence of social navigation systems.
The increased computational power of portable devices such as smart phones and laptops, and their integration with widely available global positioning systems, are opening the way for a new range of location-based applications that integrate and coordinate users' mediated interactions and data excha...
| Publicado en: | Visual Studies Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 14 - 25 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2011
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