"Game of Echoes":Location Media and the New Urban Migrants'Hybrid Sense of Place
Location media,as a novel technology of perceptual inscription,opens up new perceptions and experiences of place within hybrid spaces.This paper,from the perspective of urban new immigrants,explores how mediated mobile practices influence urban integration,city living,and the daily generation of place perception.The study finds that location media serve as a crucial means for people to familiarize themselves with the city.While individuals'spatial explorations are extended through location media,the mediated mobility anchors users to planned routes.Urban new immigrants generate a sense of place through three distinct phases:perceiving,remembering,and experiencing place.Through self-placement within urban spaces,the interplay between location media and new immigrants'exploration of the city intertwines,collectively weaving individuals'perceptions of place.The repetitive,habitual,and ritualized"echo game"creates various forms of human-place connections,including perception,memory,and attachment.Individuals not only perceive the city through location media and remember locations through check-ins but also develop a blended sense of place through their residency and attachments.
perception of placelocation mediamobilities turnnew urban migrantsmedia geography
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