1st Edition
Locative Tourism Applications A Sensory Ethnography of the Augmented City
By Erin E. Lynch
Copyright 2023
206 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Travel through time. Walk the streets as they were. See through floors. Hunt for ghosts (with drink in hand). Hear the walls speak. These are just a few of the ways that locative tourism applications seek to augment the urban experience. This book explores the universe of locative tourism applications. It uses multi-sited sensory ethnography with diverse apps in 12 cities around the world to... Read more
Biography
Erin E. Lynch is Senior Fellow in the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Canada.
“This timely text considers how tourists connect to urban environments through sensory applications. [...] Lynch does a marvelous job allowing readers to feel they are part of the stories she captures. Libraries with collections focusing on tourism studies, cultural geography, urban studies, new media studies, and sensory studies should have a copy of this text.” - K. M. Woosnam, University of Georgia in CHOICE
