Overview

This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to locative media, concentrating on specific authors and practitioners whose works exist in print and digital manifestations. The book shapes the discourse for an extensive theorization of locative media works from a narrative perspective. It investigates how different genres ⸺ print novels, fictional and non-fictional locative narratives, locative games, and audio texts ⸺ are affected by locative media practice.

Part I: Print Manifestations

Part I examines print manifestations of locative media in William Gibson’s fiction.

Part II: E-book and Audio Book Narratives

Part II discusses e-book and audio book locative narrative experimentations, suggesting ways to create and categorize locative texts.

Part III: Locative Games and Digital Narrativity

Drawing on hypertext theory, Part III views Niantic locative games as an instantiation of locative media storytelling practice that challenges digital narrativity.

Conclusion

This study captures a transition from a print-based textuality to a digital locative textuality and culture, and proposes flexible innovative models of interpreting narrative textual forms emerging from the convergence of locative and narrative media.