Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2015
Publication Title
Space and Culture
Volume
19
Issue
1
Publisher
Sage
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331215595730
Abstract
This article examines how location-based mobile media technologies are affecting the ways individuals experience the relationship between memory and place. We argue that location-based mobile applications that allow people to check in to places or record their routes represent new practices of place-based digital memory. Many individuals are using mobile media to mobilize place and memory together to create new forms of digital network memory from which they may begin to remember their pasts and to write their histories—a kind of rhetorical and poetic memory making. To help illuminate these practices, we analyze applications such as Foursquare and My Tracks and draw on research in mobilities studies, new media studies, and memory studies to introduce and advance concepts such as personal digital archiving and digital network memory. These practices of place-based digital memory have consequences for understanding the interrelationships between mobility, place, memory, and mobile media.
Recommended Citation
Frith, J., & Kalin, J. (2016). Here, I Used to Be: Mobile Media and Practices of Place-Based Digital Memory. Space and Culture, 19(1), 43–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331215595730