Book chapter
Mobile Mediality: Location, Dislocation, Augmentation
New Mobilities Regimes in Art and Social Sciences, pp 309-352
01 Jan 2013
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Abstract
Through everyday practices of moving around cities, people are creating new ways of interacting with others, with places, and with screens while moving. Such practices of "mobile mediality" elicit both utopian hopes and dystopian fears about pervasive computing, augmented reality, and responsive environments. Mobile mediality depends on an invisible array of satellites, cell towers, sensor-embedded smart buildings, and other forms of digital wireless infrastructure. Architectures of mobility and infrastructures of communication are mixing and blending visible/invisible, presence/absence, and local/global scales in constantly evolving ways. How are the day-to-day appropriations of mobile media and geolocational data interacting with the design of public spaces and infrastructures of mobility? How does access to WiFi, mobile 3G, RFID, or GIS data reconfigure urban mobilities and spatialities, and who is excluded from such access? What are the potentials of mobility spaces as new sites for creative interventions, public participation, and social interaction? And what problems of privacy, surveillance, secrecy, and uneven accessibility are emerging out of the new patterns of mobile mediality? This chapter contributes to the emerging research concerning creativity, social mobilization, and the formation of new mobile publics within the software-embedded and digitally augmented urbanism that some describe as "remediated" space (Graham), "hybrid space" (de Souza e Silva), or "networked place" (Varnelis and Friedberg).
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- Title
- Mobile Mediality: Location, Dislocation, Augmentation
- Creators
- Mimi Sheller - Drexel University
- Contributors
- S Witzgall (Editor)G Vogl (Editor)S Kesselring (Editor)
- Publication Details
- New Mobilities Regimes in Art and Social Sciences, pp 309-352
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing Ltd; ALDERSHOT
- Number of pages
- 19
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000339947400024
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85086980087
- Other Identifier
- 991019170355904721
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