Storied spaces: Cultural accounts of mobility, technology, and environmental knowing

Brewer, Johanna; Dourish, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2008.03.003

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“…Joanna Brewer and Paul Dourish (2008) noted that the legibility of spaces concerns how they "can be read and understood as conveying particular sorts of messages" (p. 971), and they argued that mobile technologies could increase the legibility of spaces because the technologies could reveal new messages, patterns, and types of knowledge about a space. For example, tips left through Foursquare or other mobile annotation applications like Yelp increase legibility by providing a new way in which information about a location can be revealed.…”

Section: Hybridity and Legibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing space: Examining the potential of location-based composition

Frith

2015

Computers and Composition

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Section: Hybridity and Legibilitymentioning

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Writing space: Examining the potential of location-based composition

Frith

2015

Computers and Composition

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“…Consequently, urban infrastructure is beginning to reflect the flow of information, rather than containing it (Brewer and Dourish 2008;Dourish and Bell 2007;Williams and Dourish 2006). The social-mobile gaming revenue from advertising alone was $368 million in 2011 (Delo 2012) while mobile revenue hit $1.78 billion in 2013 (Wall 2013 this capital production, as many of these games' business models are centered around generating profits from the emerging hybrid space economy.…”

Section: Surveillanceand Society 12(3) 392mentioning

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The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Google, Ingress, and the Gift of Surveillance

Hulsey

Reeves

2014

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This article analyses Ingress, Google's new massively multiplayer online game, as indicative of an emergent economy that calls for the datafication of one's mobile life in exchange for the gift of play. From this perspective, Ingress is simply suggestive of broader sociocultural transformations in which citizens must submit to pervasive surveillance in order to participate in contemporary economic and political life. Turning to Roberto Esposito's recent work on gift-giving and communal exchange, we explain how Google "immunizes" itself from its consumer community by continuously collecting that community's gift of surveillance while structuring its own conditions of reciprocity.

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“…Users can personalise maps of the places they pass through, imparting everything from Wikipedia pages about surrounding buildings to personal, geotagged messages left by friends. According to Brewer and Dourish (2008), one of the functions of networked mobile technologies is to increase the 'legibility of spaces and actionshow it is they can be read and understood as conveying particular sorts of messages ' (2008, p. 971). The personalising tendencies of LBSs allow users to determine the types of legibility they want to represent.…”

Section: The Database and The Personalised Citymentioning

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Splintered Space: Hybrid Spaces and Differential Mobility

Frith

2012

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Early theories of the internet imagined that individuals would begin living most of their lives online, decreasing the importance of physical mobility and urban spaces. With the development of internet-enabled mobile phones, these early predictions have been proven false. The internet has not decreased the importance of physical mobility; instead, the digital information of the internet has begun to merge with physical space, leading to new types of hybrid spaces. These hybrid spaces are becoming increasingly common, and they may change the way physical space is negotiated and understood. At this early juncture, however, it is crucial to critically examine the development of hybrid spaces and how they may lead to issues of exclusion and exacerbate issues of access. This essay takes a critical approach to the development of hybrid spaces, arguing that what is often lost in discourses about these new understandings of space are questions of who gets to experience this convergence of the digital and the physical.

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Storied spaces: Cultural accounts of mobility, technology, and environmental knowing

Cited by 64 publications

References 22 publications

Writing space: Examining the potential of location-based composition

Writing space: Examining the potential of location-based composition

The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Google, Ingress, and the Gift of Surveillance

Splintered Space: Hybrid Spaces and Differential Mobility

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