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The digital city

Media and the social production of place

by LINTON J
Published in September 2022 - Page 33

Germaine Halegoua
New York University Press,
New York, 2020

ISBN: 9781479839216

The traditional view of the use of digital media to navigate in urban space (or for that matter, anywhere) has a whiff of negativity about it: we are told that it alienates users from the place where they are and disconnects them from the space they are in. We hear of people driving into lakes because they are blindly following their GPS

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