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Chapter 20

Chapter 20. Geo-Storytelling: A Living Archive of Spatial Culture. Presented by Jasmine Demong. Intro. The chapter speaks of our push toward a more spatial culture. Why does our society desire to be spatial? It is something interesting, and easily accessible with “off the shelf” tech

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Chapter 20

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  1. Chapter 20 Geo-Storytelling: A Living Archive of Spatial Culture Presented by Jasmine Demong

  2. Intro • The chapter speaks of our push toward a more spatial culture. • Why does our society desire to be spatial? • It is something interesting, and easily accessible with “off the shelf” tech • Ex. GPS, Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) • These types of programs are not hidden, used only for military or high paying customers, but for anyone who has a smart phone or GPS for their car.

  3. Location Aware Tech: Good or Bad? • On the plus side, it provides a good platform for an immersive virtual reality and helps us explore places we cannot reach (i.e. deep sea) • On the negative side, there is always the fear of Big Brother watching you and secretly going over your information.

  4. Geo graffiti • http://www.geograffiti.com/map/ • The original idea in this chapter was to literally tag a wall virtually, as opposed to messing it up with graffiti. • Instead this web site allows you to add voice tags to a location using a copy of google maps.

  5. Flexible Storytelling • “The digital era has provided a more flexible medium for storytelling.” (pg. 413) • Non-linear and “on-the-fly” are now options in story telling, along with complete interaction between author and audience. • On the plus side, this means more options for the author of a story • On the other hand this can lead to a confused audience. • This is especially difficult for history, as traditional history, alternate stories, and armatures collide.

  6. Heritage Ecology • Media Ecology • Arranging various media to help each other so they won’t cancel out • Ex. If radio helps literacy while TV helps with languages, don’t toss out one or the other. Use the tech for what it’s useful for rather than just ignoring it for the next new thing. • First coined by Marshall McLuhan in 1977 • A media ecologist would argue that there is to much of a first-person POV, for example the huge number of bloggers that exsist.

  7. Possible Spatial Projects • Buckminster Fuller in 1962 suggested that we could build a geoscope, a globe about 200 ft in diameter with projectors on it’s surface to create real-time images and views of the past. • For now we have the creation of google earth, a virtual globe of awesome detail.

  8. Final Words • The last paragraph of the chapter concluded with this idea: • Think of changing the present to match the future rather waiting for the future to come around. Thanks for listening!

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