Locative media and augmented reality : potentialities for teaching geography in cyberculture

Abstract

The emergence of new information and communication technologies reconfigures the human way of life, culture and relations with space. Locative media, which aggregate a specific informational content through access to GPS location, brings to the forefront new spatiality and potentialities, such as the use of augmented reality (RA) technology, which has been diffused and improved with games and applications launched each day, allowing the visualization of virtual elements in the real world, in real time, which is to promote new possibilities of interaction between these elements and users. This article will discuss the uses of augmented reality and its potential for Geography Teaching