Locative Tourism Applications: A Sensory Ethnography of the Augmented City (Sensory Studies)

Travel through time. Walk the streets as they were. See through floors. Hunt for ghosts (with drink in hand). Hear the walls speak. These are just a few of the ways that locative tourism applications seek to augment the urban experience. This book explores the universe of locative tourism applications. It uses multi-sited sensory ethnography with diverse apps in 12 cities around the world to interrogate how these applications layer (often branded) maps of meaning over the urban environment, and exposes what their use – at the embodied intersection of physical and digital space – can tell us about the production of cityscapes for touristic consumption. __Locative Tourism Applications__ takes a journey in three parts to evaluate how these “extensions of the senses” mediate users’ experience of urban locales. The first offers the reader some theoretical and methodological orientation, the second takes them on a whirlwind tour of locative apps, and the third settles in for an extended exploration of two destinations: Montreal and Christchurch. With broad cross-disciplinary appeal, this volume will be of interest to scholars from tourism studies, cultural geography, urban studies, new media studies, and sensory studies and will be particularly valuable for sensory ethnographers examining mobile and location-aware media. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Departure points and orientations Chapter 1: Departure points A brief tour of tourism studies Between gaze and performance Tourism research’s digital blind spot The construction and perception of urban space Cultural geography and the construction of space Representations and perceptions of the city Locative media and the construction of augmented destination space Locative media The augmented city and the informational layer Urban markup: (co-)authoring the layered city Connecting and disconnecting (or, being in two places at once) Directions for research Notes Chapter 2: Orientations Sense and the city Sight and the (modern) city Unruly sensations Sensing the city Locative media as a practice of ‘‘sensing the city’’ Sensory ethnography Multi-sited sensory ethnography: the importance of "being there" with locative apps Sensory ethnography on the move: rhythm, mobility, and the co-production of the locative tour Locative tourism on a shifting stage: methodological challenges and reflections Part II: A tour of locative tourism apps: Between gaze and performance Chapter 3: Gaze Framing the city Taking the museum to the street in London Gamifying the tourist gaze in Edinburgh In and out of frame in New Orleans Constructing (and contesting) the urban brand Re-presenting the branded city Directing the gaze in Derry Sensing the city (with app in hand) ‘‘If you see one thing in Seattle, see everything’’: augmenting the panorama Touching the city Other(ed) senses in tourism Engaging the sixth sense in New Orleans Performing place pastiche in Hong Kong Notes Chapter 4: Performance In place, out of sync: the rhythms of the locative tour Orientation and disjuncture Rhythms and the city: falling out of place and out of pace Performing the glitch Ruin and mastery: narratives of change and development Contrasting narratives of development and change in Melbourne The smell of progress Nature, civilisation, and simulacra in the locative tour Narratives of authenticity in San Francisco Encountering the other in layered space Multiplying the readings of the city: authorship, mapping, and countermapping Reorienting the map in Dublin Queering the map in Toronto Encountering the other Note Part III: A tale of two cities (case studies) Chapter 5: A city of gaps: Mediating the ruin in Christchurch “Nothing to see here”: tourism and place branding in the wake of disaster Placemaking on High Street Sensing the ruin in Christchurch Rhythms and (dis)orientation You are (not) here Phantom landmarks and disorientation on High Street Locative rhythms on High Street The writing on the wall: encountering layered urban inscriptions Nature as urban inscription Future imaginaries: engaging with the rebuild Haunted imaginaries Notes Chapter 6: A city of screens: Augmenting the branded cityscape in Montreal Locative encounters in Old Montreal Shaping urban atmospheres Smooth operators: rhythms, tour guides, and the ‘smoothing out’ of experience The Grand Tableau: getting the “big picture” in Old Montreal Augmenting the branded cityscape Mapping brand values in Montreal Carnivalesque brandscapes and branded multiculturalism The city as screen Montreal by night: a highlight reel Haunted Montreal The city looks back: intimate gaze and surveillance in Montréal en Histoires Sensing the tourist Re-enchanting the city "The Creation of the World" A tale of two cities Notes Conclusion Appendix: Twelve-city tour of applications Bibliography Index "Travel through time. Walk the streets as they were. See through floors. Hunt for ghosts (with drink in hand). Hear the walls speak. These are just a few of the ways that locative tourism applications seek to augment the urban experience. This book explores the universe of locative tourism applications. It uses multi-sited sensory ethnography with diverse apps in twelve cities around the world to interrogate how these applications layer (often branded) maps of meaning over the urban environment, and exposes what their use - at the embodied intersection of physical and digital space - can tell us about the production of cityscapes for touristic consumption. Locative Tourism Applications takes a journey in three parts to evaluate how these 'extensions of the senses' mediate users' experience of urban locales. The first offers the reader some theoretical and methodological orientation, the second takes them on a whirlwind tour of locative apps, and the third settles in for an extended exploration of two destinations: Montreal and Christchurch. With broad cross-disciplinary appeal, this volume will be of interest to scholars from tourism studies, cultural geography, urban studies, new media studies and sensory studies and particularly valuable for sensory ethnographers examining mobile and location-aware media"-- Provided by publisher