JAKE WOOLF=LOCATIVE MEDIA

I definitely had some troubles grasping the concept of what exactly locative media is. I was able to understand that locative media has to do with media expressed not through text about a certain place, but from the changing of and understanding of the place itself. What was hard to grasp is how the actual media is being absorbed by the audience. Is it through the portable device such as laptop or Iphone/Blackberry, or is it from being in the location itself? Or is it how the space and the GPS interact with each other? This didn't make much sense to me. In that sense, I wish the article had been a lot clearer.

What did help clarify was a description to about the project, in which i was able to relate it to the website we viewed in class about Toronto and the different locations. Basically I now get how locative media is just going to different locations and using the GPS or whatever to gain information about the particular location. Still, it seems more like an independent, although interesting and resourceful, tourist attraction.

In other news, I was thinking about how crowds at sporting events are a form of participatory action. We all agree on the emotion we want to convey to the team when we cheer, whether it be "get a hit!" or "stop them from scoring!" or sometimes even "you guys suck!". It's interesting though, because we have the ability to change the energy of the space by simply screaming at the same time, and can energize a team to act a certain way...aka "Home-field advantage".