About
I am an artist and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Information Studies at the University of Glasgow’s School of Humanities.
I research what is often taken for granted in contemporary digital cultures. My research challenges existing assumptions about place, location, and technology. I use digital tools and arts-based methods – including mapping, sound recording, imaging, and walkthroughs – to investigate how urban space is constructed and experienced.
Book: Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps
Current Projects:
Review Culture and the City: I am developing a book with Dr. Aparajita Bhandari at the University of Waterloo [tentatively] titled Review Culture: Expertise, Taste, and the City. This book focusses on the idea of the review as an online infrastructure that simultaneously punches up and punches down: a way to speak back and a mechanism for workers to be surveilled. Related articles with Aparajita Bhandari “Hacks, Fakes, and Hot Takes: The Complexities of Content Moderation on Google Maps’ Local Guides Platform” and “Go Local: The Exclusionary Configurations of ‘local love’ on Google Maps’ Local Guides Platform.”
Sonic Aftermaths of the Digital City: A collaborative project with Dr. Iain Findlay-Walsh at the University of Glasgow titled “Listening to the Digital City?” The project investigates the sonic aftermath of digital city development and the ambient soundscape of datafication. Through field recording, drawing, and mapping in Glasgow, this work documents the sounds of data centres, signal transmitters, and digital sensors to map out a new sonic atmosphere of our digital environment. Installation here.
email: rebecca.noone[at]glasgow.ac.uk