Where are you now/ Locational Anxieties
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: School of Geographical & Earth Sciences
Abstract
The rapid development and proliferation of digital technology has been facilitated by an entrepreneurial
capitalism invested in social media hard and software, the state facilitation of high tech governance in
the form of smart cities and regions, and an increasingly skilled 'digital citizenry' capable of contributing
to, adopting, repurposing and 'glitching' digital systems, platforms and applications. A crucial component
of digital technologies is an increasingly precise geolocation function that allows designers, producers
and users to 'place' people and objects, and to track their mobility through space and time. Smartphones
are the most ubiquitous products of this 'digital turn', allowing a new suite of processes and practices to
unfold, while also reiterating a well-worn imaginary of space as a field that can be quantified, modelled
and instrumentalised as a tool. What are the new capacities, and challenges, of a 'digital citizenry'? And
what repercussions emerge from this rapidly developing capacity to locate one's self and others?
capitalism invested in social media hard and software, the state facilitation of high tech governance in
the form of smart cities and regions, and an increasingly skilled 'digital citizenry' capable of contributing
to, adopting, repurposing and 'glitching' digital systems, platforms and applications. A crucial component
of digital technologies is an increasingly precise geolocation function that allows designers, producers
and users to 'place' people and objects, and to track their mobility through space and time. Smartphones
are the most ubiquitous products of this 'digital turn', allowing a new suite of processes and practices to
unfold, while also reiterating a well-worn imaginary of space as a field that can be quantified, modelled
and instrumentalised as a tool. What are the new capacities, and challenges, of a 'digital citizenry'? And
what repercussions emerge from this rapidly developing capacity to locate one's self and others?
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Deborah Dixon (Primary Supervisor) | |
Fergus Attlee (Student) |
Studentship Projects
Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
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ES/P000681/1 | 01/10/2017 | 30/09/2027 | |||
2451162 | Studentship | ES/P000681/1 | 01/10/2020 | 30/09/2024 | Fergus Attlee |