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Spatial Participation Gap: Towards a Conceptual Perspective on Locative Storytelling Creation

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2018)

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This article draws on a historical need to use locative media to understand information in order to offer a critical conceptual perspective on those who do not have the means to create locative storytelling as a result of what is called participation gap. By drawing on two case studies with ethnographical data, one in Austin, Texas, US, and another in Monmouth, Wales, UK, I discuss the use of mobile interfaces such as QRcodes and the creation of location-based storytelling. Finally, the article introduces the notion of ‘spatial participation gap’, which is the unequal access to spaces and hybrid spaces.

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    Cláudia Silva

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  3. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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Silva, C. (2018). Spatial Participation Gap: Towards a Conceptual Perspective on Locative Storytelling Creation. In: Rouse, R., Koenitz, H., Haahr, M. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11318. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04028-4_67

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