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Reconceptualizing Digital Sense of Place in Geography Education: Asymmetric Condition-Setting of Code-Mediation and the DSoP-3L Model

디지털 장소감의 지리교육적 재개념화: 코드매개의 비대칭적 조건설정과 DSoP-3L 모형

조현기1†

Hyungi Cho1†

1서울금북초등학교 교사
1Teacher, Seoul Geumbuk Elementary School
30 June 2026. pp. 231~249
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Abstract
This paper reconceptualizes digital sense of place (DSoP) as an analytical language for geography education. Rather than reporting classroom implementation or student data analysis, it is designed as a conceptual literature study and a theoretical model-building inquiry. The proposed DSoP-3L model analyzes students’ place experiences through embodied, relational, and code-mediated layers that operate within the same place experience. Its central contribution is the thesis of asymmetric condition-setting: code-mediation through platforms, algorithms, data, interfaces, and defaults conditions how places become visible, accessible, evaluable, and memorable. By comparing DSoP-3L with Dai and Liu’s (2024) physical-digital-hybrid typology and Sun et al.’s (2026) five-subsystem model, the paper argues that DSoP-3L is not another tripartite typology but a layer-based analytical grammar for interpreting student utterances, fieldwork records, platform-map comparisons, and reflective writings. The Seongsu-dong café street is presented as a lesson-design scenario, not as evidence of instructional effects. The study proposes DSoP-3L as a question framework linking place-based learning, platform map literacy, critical place education, and digital memory education.
Keywords
Digital sense of place
DSoP-3L
Code-mediation
Asymmetric condition-setting
Platform map literacy
본 연구는 실제 수업 실행이나 학생 자료 분석에 근거한 경험 연구가 아니라, 디지털 장소감(Digital Sense of Place, DSoP)을 지리교육의 분석 언어로 재개념화하는 개념적 문헌 연구이자 이론적 모형 제안 연구이다. DSoP-3L은 학생의 장소 경험을 하나의 장소 경험 안에서 동시에 작동하는 체화적·관계적·코드매개적 층위로 분석한다. 핵심 기여는 플랫폼·알고리즘·데이터·인터페이스·기본값을 통한 코드매개가 장소의 가시성·접근성·평가가능성·기억가능성을 비대칭적으로 조건설정한다는 명제를 정식화한 데 있다. Dai and Liu(2024)의 물리적·디지털·하이브리드 유형론 및 Sun et al.(2026)의 다섯 하위체계 통합 모형과 비교하여, DSoP-3L이 또 하나의 삼분 모형이 아니라 학생 발화, 답사 기록, 플랫폼 지도 비교, 성찰문을 해석하기 위한 층위 분석 문법임을 논증한다. 성수동 카페거리 논의는 실제 수업 효과 검증이 아니라 플랫폼화된 장소 읽기의 수업 설계 시나리오로 제시된다. 이를 통해 본 연구는 DSoP-3L을 장소기반학습, 플랫폼 지도 리터러시, 비판적 장소교육, 디지털 기억 교육을 연결하는 질문틀로 제안한다.
키워드
디지털 장소감
DSoP-3L
코드매개
비대칭적 조건설정
플랫폼 지도 리터러시
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  • Publisher :The Association of Korean Geographers
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국지리학회
  • Journal Title :Journal of the Association of Korean Geographers
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  • Volume : 15
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