Geomedia Speaker Series - Christian Licoppe

The aim of this conference is to discuss the use of mobile locative media and the way the availability of various forms of location awareness and proximity awareness provides resources for the reshaping of mobilities (with the pervasive figure of the 'detour') and sociality in urban public places (with the rise in importance of encounters with 'pseudonymous strangers'). The argument will proceed in two steps.

- first a case study of a typical mobile locative media, the gay mobile dating application Grindr, displaying an ethnographic approach to locative media and enabling the fleshing out of some key concepts

- second a broader and more general discussion of common features of locative media and how they might reshape radically future mobility and sociality in urban public places.

Date: 8th of October
Place: Room 11C369, Karlstad University
13.15 - 14.00: Presentation by Professor Christian Licoppe, Telecom Paristech
14.00 - 14.15: Coffee break
14.15 - 15.00: Discussion

Presentations from the Geomedia Research Group
Date: 9th of October
Place: Room 12A424, Karlstad University
8.15 – 10.15 Presentations  
10.15-10.40 Coffee break
10.40 – 12.00 Presentations