Communication textures for the urban movement of people with
visual impairments: the navigation, the itinerary, and the
phone call

J 2025

Communication textures for the urban movement of people with visual impairments: the navigation, the itinerary, and the phone call

DOBOŠ, Pavel

Základní údaje

Originální název

Communication textures for the urban movement of people with visual impairments: the navigation, the itinerary, and the phone call

Autoři

DOBOŠ, Pavel

Vydání

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025, 0435-3684

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50701 Cultural and economic geography

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 2.100 v roce 2024

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Visual impairment; mediatization; GPS; disability; communication geography; haptics

Štítky

14315030

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 28. 4. 2025 16:00, Mgr. Marie Novosadová Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

The paper investigates the urban movement of people with visual impairments. It is rooted in critical communication geography and disability geography, both of which are highly influenced by non-representational theory. Using concepts of mediatization and transmedia textures, the research is based on interviews with people with visual impairments about their movement through urban space while using media and communication technologies. More precisely, the article examines two technologies in detail: spatial navigation applications on smartphones and route itineraries prepared on a computer and the internet. The study explores the intricate interplay between these in shaping urban movement and space. They can operate in symbiosis, but their interplay can also fail if spatial navigation overshadows the route itinerary. While digital spatial navigation offers advantages, it sometimes fails to address the specificity of non-seeing bodies and causes affects of uncertainty and confusion, perceived danger, or a fear of getting lost. Hence, it can inadvertently reproduce ableism because of its principal foundation in geometric coordinate Euclidean space, seen from above. The older technological practice of making a simple phone call can mitigate the problem, yet it has other deficiencies, for example, the constant need to have a seeing person on the line.

Návaznosti

GA23-05096S, projekt VaV

Název: Geografie krip temporalit: čas v každodennosti lidí s postižením

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Geografie krip temporalit: čas v každodennosti lidí s postižením

Citovat

DOBOŠ, Pavel. Communication textures for the urban movement of people with visual impairments: the navigation, the itinerary, and the phone call. Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography. Taylor & Francis Group, 2025, 15 s. ISSN 0435-3684. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2025.2463582.

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DOBOŠ, Pavel. Communication textures for the urban movement of people with visual impairments: the navigation, the itinerary, and the phone call. \textit{Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography}. Taylor \&{} Francis Group, 2025, 15 s. ISSN~0435-3684. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2025.2463582.

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