Locative devices and web mapping for the humanities

In this Community Idea Exchange/Tech Showcase, I will share two ongoing curriculum-embedded spatial humanities projects in which students use smartphones to collect and geo-tag data in both sociolinguistics and urban cultural history. I will summarize the research questions behind such projects and reasons why I chose this technology, as well as explain some of the benefits, limitations and ethical boundaries of this methodology. For those who are interested in more technical details, I will offer suggestions for managing the workflow and representing crowd-generated research results in the data-driven classroom with a public face.