ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the research underpinning the app “Hidden Hamburg” and its audio trail through 1686 Hamburg, a major centre of news distribution in northern Europe. Through a focus on the tumultuous political events in 1686, we highlight the production and consumption of information in disparate urban spaces and address questions of news dissemination in handwritten, printed, and oral form. We show how the app project, which uses a guide character in pursuit of news, addresses these topics as pubic history by marrying research into urban and media history with a digitally augmented reality investigation of the spaces and news flows of the early modern city.
