Mobile Locative Media and Hybrid Narrative Spaces: Editorial

This editorial offers an overview of the development of mobile locative media, exploring its various representations, experimentations, and manifestations. Mobile locative media can be located at the interstices of multiple fields and disciplines, while various theoretical threads have also emerged out of its study. These technologies appeared as a result of a number of convergences and cultural turns, which are evident in today’s world. The spatial, the narrative, the digital and postdigital, the geohuman, the embodied, the sonic, the object, the ambient, and the metamodern turn, constitute paradigm shifts in the midst of which mobile locative media have evolved. The current special themed issue aims to provide readers with engaging entry points into the exploration and understanding of mobile locative media and its intersection with space and narrative. The essays included here offer broad approaches to mobile locative media, revealing its transformative potential as regards the modalities of spatial representation, as well as its dynamic multifaceted nature, while also inspiring further research questions.