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Communication textures for the urban movement of people with visual impairments: the navigation, the itinerary, and the phone call
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| Rok publikování | 2025 |
| Druh | Článek v odborném periodiku |
| Časopis / Zdroj | Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | |
| www | https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2025.2463582 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2025.2463582 |
| Klíčová slova | Visual impairment; mediatization; GPS; disability; communication geography; haptics |
| Popis | The paper investigates the urban movement of people with visual impairments. It is rooted in critical communication geography and disability geography, both of which are highly influenced by non-representational theory. Using concepts of mediatization and transmedia textures, the research is based on interviews with people with visual impairments about their movement through urban space while using media and communication technologies. More precisely, the article examines two technologies in detail: spatial navigation applications on smartphones and route itineraries prepared on a computer and the internet. The study explores the intricate interplay between these in shaping urban movement and space. They can operate in symbiosis, but their interplay can also fail if spatial navigation overshadows the route itinerary. While digital spatial navigation offers advantages, it sometimes fails to address the specificity of non-seeing bodies and causes affects of uncertainty and confusion, perceived danger, or a fear of getting lost. Hence, it can inadvertently reproduce ableism because of its principal foundation in geometric coordinate Euclidean space, seen from above. The older technological practice of making a simple phone call can mitigate the problem, yet it has other deficiencies, for example, the constant need to have a seeing person on the line. |
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