Where are you now/ Locational Anxieties

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The rapid development and proliferation of digital technology has been facilitated by an entrepreneurial capitalism invested in social media hard and software, the state facilitation of high tech governance in the form of smart cities and regions, and an increasingly skilled 'digital citizenry' capable of contributing to, adopting, repurposing and 'glitching' digital systems, platforms and applications. A crucial component of digital technologies is an increasingly precise geolocation function that allows designers, producers and users to 'place' people and objects, and to track their mobility through space and time. Smartphones are the most ubiquitous products of this 'digital turn', allowing a new suite of processes and practices to unfold, while also reiterating a well-worn imaginary of space as a field that can be quantified, modelled and instrumentalised as a tool. What are the new capacities, and challenges, of a 'digital citizenry'? And what repercussions emerge from this rapidly developing capacity to locate one's self and others?