ABSTRACT

In the contemporary media environment, space and information do not stand still but are continuously enacted through the relations among subjects, objects, and places. For information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly for mobile devices, the locational aggregation of data has become foundational, 1 increasing the availability, circulation, and acquisition of information. ICTs act as the interfaces that mediate the social and the spatial, 2 underlining their conjoined performativity. 3 Building on the mobile, networked approach that accounts for the so-called mobility turn of contemporary social practices, 4 challenging both the object of enquiry of the social sciences and existing research methodologies, I believe that we also need to question the representational paradigm itself—typically employed when relations between space and society are considered—in order to prioritize the processes and relations that characterize locative media today, without congealing them in a list of binaries suitable for representation.