Google Street View: navigating the operative image.
Via a close navigation of a Google Street View (GSV) scene in Oslo, this article investigates the role the photographic image plays in what has come to be known as ‘locative media’ – an entire range of image software that runs on mobile devices using GPS signals to locate the user, and that emerged...
| Publicado en: | Visual Studies Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 261 - 272 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2014
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