1st Edition

Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps

By Rebecca Noone Copyright 2024
160 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps explores the mundane act of navigating cities in the age of digital mapping infrastructures. Noone follows the frictions routing through Google Maps’ categorising and classifying of spatial information. Complicating the assumption that digital maps distort a sense of direction, Noone argues that Google Maps’ location awareness does more than just... Read more

1. The Lost Art of Location Awareness; 2. Geographies of Public Good; 3. Geographies of Self-Sufficiency; 4. Orientations of Legibility; 5. Orientations of Error; 6. Epilogue: Reorienting Location Awareness

Biography

Rebecca Noone is an artist and a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Information Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow.