“…The information once received, whether alerts about friends' check-ins, mapping directions to a bar, or nearby historical sites on a tourist app, was about one's physical surroundings. Equally important, that information then influenced mobility patterns, a point repeated in mobile media research on a variety of topics, including mapping applications (Ozkul, 2015), mobile gaming (Frith, 2013), and location-based social networking (Saker and Evans, 2016). Rather than a tool of physical disengagement, the smartphone as locative media instead became an interface through which to engage in an augmented way with nearby physical space.…”