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Right this way: Exploring the use of mobile maps in Street‐Level wayfinding
Author(s) -
Noone Rebecca
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.416
Subject(s) - fieldnotes , grounded theory , situational ethics , mobile device , computer science , human–computer interaction , sociology , psychology , world wide web , qualitative research , social psychology , ethnography , social science , anthropology
The poster explores practices of street‐level wayfinding mediated through the mobile digital map. To study everyday wayfinding, I approached people in the streets of Toronto, New York, Amsterdam and London, and asked for directions, requesting they draw their instructions. In total, I collected 220 drawings and corresponding observational fieldnotes, along with 20 supplemental interviews. Following collection, I used visual grounded theory (Konecki, Revija Za Socilologiju, 2011, 41, 131–160) and situational analysis (Clarke, Situational analysis: Grounded theory after the postmodern turn, 2005) to analyze the data, concentrating on encounters in which informants used a mobile mapping platform. The poster showcases a selection of the visual dataset and presents a theoretical framework for assessing the everyday applications of mobile mapping platforms such as Google Maps in relation to presumptions of reliability, seamlessness, and claims to space.