Cláudia Silva - @silvaclaudia01Universidade Nova de Lisboa – UT Austin Portugal program

Back to the Future of News: Looking for locative media principles in the pre-news era

Paris, France-1917

Austin,Texas 2014

Readers from the 16th and 17th centuries perceived news like a maze without consulting analog maps (Vittu, 1994)

• Kenny, Neil (2004). The uses of curiosity in early modern France and Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Curiosity History

Sense of Place

Maps

Foursquare: a cabinet of spatial information

How does it affect journalism?

Curiosity

Break with the industry’s preconceived notions of what news should be

From temporal actuality to spatial proximity

spatial news as rare, exotic, collectable, hidden, select, small

strategy to recreate a news reading habit in Millennials by engaging them with a physical location enhancing sense of place

Thank you! Dr. Joseph Straubhaaar Dr. Antonio Granado