Locative Media

<p>Not only is locative media one of the fastest growing areas in digital technology but questions of location and location-awareness are increasingly central to our contemporary engagements with online and mobile media and indeed media and culture generally. This volume is a comprehensive account of the various location-based technologies services applications and cultures as <i>media</i> with an aim to identify inventory explore and critique their cultural economic political social and policy dimensions internationally. In particular the collection is organized around the perception that the growth of locative media gives rise to a number of crucial questions concerning the areas of culture economy and policy.</p>