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5 Electronic tactics and digital alternative media One of the key potential uses of CMC, in addition to its use for mobilisation and co-ordination of activism, is as a tool of protest in itself. CMC could be used for more than the distribution of information, notably as a tool with which to lobby adversaries, undertake ‘hacktivism’ or as a conduit for alternative media. Environmental activists have utilised diverse tactics in the attempt to assert their influence upon the decision-making process and society. Such tactics have included lobbying politicians
9 Maps as foams and the rheology of digital spatial media: a conceptual framework for considering mapping projects as they change over time Cate Turk Introduction The world of mapping has rapidly moved from provisioning users with static twodimensional hard copy displays to maps that are on-line, immediate and dynamic. (Cartwright, 2013: 56) With a curious twist, we have come to think of a map like a ‘folding’ map that we carry around on our travels – a tactile three-dimensional thing with movement encapsulated in its title – as static as Abend also argues in
6 Traces, tiles and fleeting moments: art and the temporalities of geomedia Gavin MacDonald Introduction: geomediation in the inhabitable map In this chapter, I discuss ways in which artists have exploited and exposed the temporalities of ‘geomedia’. I am following writers working at the intersection of media studies and geography in using this term to refer to a contemporary complex of technologies, content and practices that involve mapping, remote survey visualisations and the binding of digital information to location via GPS (Thielmann, 2010; Lapenta, 2011
, the (lack of) a silver BMW and two multi-storey car parks (the correct one and the impostor car park), among many others. The complex assemblage of actants mediating his participation reveals the potential of the city as a performative stage. All these actants were assembled across interconnected machines: performance, human, media, urban and several others. Paul’s account demonstrates the potential for reflection and serendipity to emerge from the perceived failure of functional machines. Some of the human and technical failures I observed in A Machine To See
Home Immigrant – Qaisra Shahraz I read and hear about immigrants. I meet them in my everyday life. I have taught them for nearly fifteen years. I am dismayed that there is constant negative news in the media about immigration and refugees. I am disappointed that some politicians appear to have no qualms about using immigration as a topic to whip up racism to win them votes. I hate it when migrants are scapegoated for economic problems and when they become easy targets for vilification and hate. Remember the targeting of the Eastern European and Polish
information, ordering time as linear and continuously proceeding (Rosenberg and Grafton, 2010). This has clearly changed with the contemporary hybrid media forms of the digital age, which offer new and multiple ways of time integration. Therefore, this chapter argues that one of the main distinctions between analogue maps and digital geomedia1 (Döring and Thielmann, 2009; Felgenhauer and Quade, 2012) can be found in the way visualisations organise the temporal dimension. In order to show this, I do not reject the idea of representation and inscription, but rather look at
issues using GPS as a positioning system in Can You See Me Now? ( 2001 ), they decided to ask street participants in Uncle Roy All Around You ( 2003 ), to self-report their location through the handheld computers given to them. As I described in Chapter 1 , some of the participants sought to take advantage of this technological constraint by reporting their location ahead of their arrival, enabling them to ‘get information in advance’ from the online players (Benford et al., 2004 ). Nine years later in 2011 – at a time when locative media-enabled mobile phones
workforce, alongside a dedicated tramline and a new campus for the University of Salford. Sleek but soulless, the architecture is dominated by high-rises clad in corporate black and grey; the complex was awarded the Carbuncle Cup in 2011. Long before Salford’s association with media production, Manchester had its own reputation as ‘the other Fleet Street’, or the ‘Fleet Street of the North’. For over a century, it was a centre for the production and distribution of national, regional and local newspapers. Most famously, the Manchester Guardian was founded in the city in
The machine-city What is the social and spatial experience of urban living in the twenty-first century? It inevitably – and increasingly – involves interactions with machines. Many of these consist of media machines that process vast amounts of data from both the surrounding environment and remote databases. Take a walk through your city. Leaving your home behind, you are likely to be carrying a very powerful information and communication machine in your pocket (your mobile phone). As you cross the street, an automated software system located in a citywide
attempted to employ CMC to strengthen their non-hierarchical forms of organisation and to resist the pressure to formalise. Environmentalists have also grasped the opportunities afforded by the technology in aiding participant mobilisation and co-ordination, distributing their alternative media, developing new online tactics of protest and effectively subverting (or mutating) the technology from within. The ways in which environmental activists overcame the barriers and utilised these opportunities (in different ways by distinct groups) illustrate the complex use of