Sonya J. Smyk

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How can mobile interface technology get people to engage with wider issues in museum curation than just discovering individual artifacts?

The QRater app asked provocative questions of museum visitors about curation issues, such as is humor applicable in the description of a museum artifact? And are objects of sentimental value as...

10 October 2015 1,170 0 View

How does Jason Farman respond to Elaine Scarry's assertion that intense embodiment is the equivalent of being unrepresented?

Farnam, J. (2012). Mobile Interface Theory. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 124 - 126. I cannot decide if he agrees, disagrees or agrees in a modified way... He finishes up by stating: "By...

10 October 2015 5,275 0 View

What are the benefits and drawbacks of learning about a new location via geocaching?

Geocaching allows for the "unmapping" of familiar locations, by layering a fresh perspective/fresh information onto them. If I were starting life in a new city what might the consequences be of...

09 September 2015 5,966 1 View

Can you describe a time in your life when you experienced spatial dissonance? What were the consequences?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfATEZiUYo

09 September 2015 4,678 3 View

Location has long been recognized as an important aspect of journalism. How does spatial journalism handle location differently?

Weiss (2014) sets out a framework for the study of spatial journalism.

09 September 2015 361 3 View

How does spatial journalism provide a bridge between finite and nontacit location?

Weiss (2014), p.10. I think finite location is "place" and nontacit location is "space".

09 September 2015 9,601 5 View

How do location based services (apps) allow for the reading and writing of the city in new ways?

Farnam, 2014, p.36

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How can location be used to tailor news to individual consumers in a way that goes beyond such "lackluster" units of relevance as zip code?

Automated journalism is the process by which computers select the stories consumers see, and the order in which they see them. Nearby location can make news stories seem more relevant to...

09 September 2015 7,833 3 View

Might the threat of app obsolescence inhibit artists from producing creative works for mobile media, restricting the potential of such media?

In The Mobile Story (chapter 5) Mark Sample talks about the difficulties of constructing compelling location-based stories. In chapter 4, Jeff Ritchie explains that mobile narratives (especially...

09 September 2015 6,801 1 View