1. Geo-Storytelling Ch. 20 of Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage Presented by Sandra Wilson

2. Some Background… Next generation technologies are emerging technologies that challenge the way we archive and present history Affect presentation and documentation EX: Locative Media, Geograffiti People are aware of this new wave of technology; almost taken for granted EX: GPS

3. Locative Media Locative media involves the use of information encoded into a physical location. “Big Brother” Immersive Online Games Roy All Around You Being looked at for the use of preserving cultural heritage.

4. Geograffiti Graffiti – derived from Roman practice of scratching political messages on public walls Considered wrong in modern social order Geograffiti – “virtual graffiti” Proposes an open-access spatial authoring system for mobile, network-enabled, location aware devices Interaction w/o alteration Not all people need to see it

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6. Flexible Storytelling Storytelling – one of the oldest art forms of human beings Originally an oral tradition Changed forms with new platforms of communication and changes in society Interactive => Non-interactive w/invention of written narrative Storytelling in the Digital Era Interactive Hyperlinks, side-bar materials, streaming (dynamic) materials, visual media, etc

7. Locative Media and Storytelling Physical artifacts in museums are arranged in some order to tell a story. Problem: All objects have own story Locative Technology allows significance to be attached to every object

8. Heritage Ecology Def: considering whole field of production when engaging with a problem regarding media; each type of media has value Term coined by Marshall McLuhan Views of the Media Ecologist Traditional field of heritage lacks multiple POV’s People tend to look more at “first-person” media EX: blogging combined with locative media would allow easier access to other bloggers’ views about the location

9. The Future Geoscope – project intended “to be a fully computerized globe” Everything in real space has some kind of locative media attached to it Preserves space AND culture Importance of locative media Development of user-centric and dynamic systems for nonlinear storytelling Sensation of navigation beyond official story into many details Simplify and organize the chaos of “Geograffiti” among people with locative technologies