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Making Sense of Audiowalks: Methodological Considerations for the Study of Locative Media
Aarhus University, Denmark.
Malmö University, Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), Department of Computer Science and Media Technology (DVMT).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9859-2416
2024 (English)In: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media; No 8 (2024): Mobile Locative Media and Hybrid Narrative Spaces & Other Essays, Vol. 8Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article discusses audiowalks as mobile locative media and raises issues around how to analyze such hybrid and situated aesthetic and narrative experiences. We employ sensory ethnographies coupled with post-phenomenological concepts to present a mode of analysis that captures the relationality between the technological and embodied aspects of the experiences. Audiowalks and similar hybrid experiences are created and experienced through several media formats (text, image, sound) and exist in between and across several aesthetic traditions and genres (literature, art, music). The case that we analyze in the article uses mobile media to distribute locative digital experiences that are intimately tied to geographical places: Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK is a GPS-enabled work of public art that uses music to illuminate the natural environment (and can be found in several cities currently). We suggest that a situated awareness is needed to critically analyze works such as this, and that sensory ethnographic approaches in combination with multistability created by technology can be adapted to suit such an analysis. We wish to broaden the scope of such methods by moving beyond the study of individuals and their activities to also include the relationship between locative media and aesthetic experiences that they engage with as users/readers/listeners of audiowalks.

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School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , 2024. Vol. 8
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locative media, audiowalks, sonic ethnography
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Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Arts
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-76329DOI: 10.26262/exna.v0i8.10131OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-76329DiVA, id: diva2:1963477
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