1 Kino-Phone Location, Broadcast and Autonomy

Wi. Journal of Mobile Media, 2009

The internet has already started leaking into the real world" Ben Russel (1999)

Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2009

In this chapter, we argue for the mutual relevance of media space and mobile communications researches. Surveying the two literatures, we note that the findings of media space research are often echoed by later mobile communication research and discuss some of the ideas they hold in common. However, mobile phones are used in a more diverse environment, both organizationally and physically. As such, research on mobile communication can be seen as not only building upon, but also significantly extending media space research. We discuss a few cases where this is true, as well as our own attempts to explore these connections through design and prototyping. Harrison_Ch18.indd 287 Harrison_Ch18.indd 287 3/30/2009 12:58:59 PM 3/30/2009 12:58:59 PM P.M. Aoki et al.

Urban Studies, 2014

This paper underscores the centrality of individual technological devices, particularly mobile phones, in structuring contemporary social interaction in public spaces. It illustrates the need to re-think the relationship between information and communications technologies and practices of sociability in public spaces. Based on surveys of users of mobile phones (basic mobile phones and smartphones), we explore the practices and actions of subjects in public spaces. Empirical analysis shows that the use of mobile phones and, particularly, smartphones, is gradually modifying the normative constraints associated with place and social codes, simultaneously enhancing both a sense of freedom and estrangement. Based on our findings, the paper suggests the concept of portable private-personal territory to better understand the personal space individuals develop with the support of technology. Finally, the paper concludes with a reflection on the future implications of portable private-personal territories for public spaces and cities.

Communicating space (s): Proceedings of the 24th …, 2006

This paper aims at investigating the emergence of new forms of communication environments, supported by the integration of new mobile and locative media tech-nologies and the impact that the implementation of these systems may have on medi-ated ...

2015

1 ABSTRACT ICT is an important social medium which influences the concepts of space and place. It allows creative participation of users who act as consumers of plac es, active contributors in the process of urban des ign or critics. The first phase of the ICT development in c ties was focused on providing and assuring low-co st Internet access which would enable free connectivit y w hin a community, at home or work (Loader and Keeble, 2004). Gradually, the relationship between ICT, community and cities has been continuously analyzed and elaborated emphasizing new topics and targeting design and meaningful application of ICT within communities. Simultaneously, the role of dig ital networks and flows has been recognized in many fields of urban reality, fostering civic engagement (Pigg, 2001) and supporting a sustainable social, ultural or economic development of cities and their spaces.

Urban Studies, 2014

This paper underscores the centrality of individual technological devices, particularly mobile phones, in structuring contemporary social interaction in public spaces. It illustrates the need to re-think the relationship between information and communications technologies and practices of sociability in public spaces. Based on surveys of users of mobile phones (basic mobile phones and smartphones), we explore the practices and actions of subjects in public spaces. Empirical analysis shows that the use of mobile phones and, particularly, smartphones, is gradually modifying the normative constraints associated with place and social codes, simultaneously enhancing both a sense of freedom and estrangement. Based on our findings, the paper suggests the concept of portable private-personal territory to better understand the personal space individuals develop with the support of technology. Finally, the paper concludes with a reflection on the future implications of portable private-personal territories for public spaces and cities.

The increasing use of social networks puts issues associated with the notions of public and private, and, among them, the issue of privacy under a new perspective. These issues take an added dimension with the sharing of information online, via mobile communication devices. With this article we aim to understand the transformations of the notions of public and private in everyday life, taking as a focus of analysis the use of mobile communication devices. With specific reference to the smartphone, we will characterize the nature of the boundaries between public and private, permeated by new behaviors that raise new issues. We’ll start revisiting the notions of public and private in order to evaluate its application to “new situational geographies of social life” (Meyrowitz,1986), to explore the following questions: “In what terms is it appropriate to think of public and private today?”; “How do we conceptualize the distinction between these two spheres?” And still: “How do we apply these concepts to the most common routines of everyday life?”. Taking into account the data collected under the Public and Private in Mobile Communications Project, we’ll seek the answer to two main research questions: 1) “Are the notions of public and private still present today?” and 2) “Taking those notions as guidelines, to what extent do mobile phones contribute to a new way of thinking about public and private?”. To conclude, the consistency between these data and the conceptualization proposed in the framework of this study will be evaluated

This text discusses the social mobility and its changes in the urban space, promoted by the development of communication media resulting from the dynamics of industrialization and from the new era’s urbanization. The media remodel the urban spaces, the suburbs, the center, give dynamism to public transportation and make these web-organisms, the cities, more complex.

Mobile Media & Communication, 2013

There is a long and healthy debate about the "new" in "new media," and ever more scholars in the social sciences and humanities are entering the debate. Whichever side one takes in that debate, there is evidence of new forms of interaction and connection by way of modern media. Teenagers renegotiate relations to their parents by real time sharing and withholding of information on their location, their activities and their emotional states. Cultural goods such as literature and music acquire new and different meanings and affective investments when no longer collected and used in a material form but streamed to devices at hand. New potentials for health provision, social welfare and trade arise in regions where people have their first contact with hospitals, government agencies and banks through the screens of their mobile phones instead of computers or human agents. We cannot yet systematically define precisely what these observations have in common. But they all touch the phenomenon of mobility in communication. We believe that the time has come for a joint effort to explain this still unfolding phenomenon. This is what Mobile Media & Communication is about.

The " smartphone " is one of the individualized technical objects of the 21st century. This object is like a tool for socio-spatial reading of the territories thanks to the Internet of Things. The integration of geolocalised information with the Internet of Things opens the way to apprehend actual heritage of the cities in different ways. The relationship between digital and physical mobility in mapping physical territories in a sensitive way has been investigated only in a few studies and there is controversy about its predictors. Therefore we aimed to investigate the relationships between the invisible and non-visible elements of territories and users with their networks. We hypothesized that the circulations of 10 participants during 7 days in Strasbourg would enable us to trace a sample of images of the collective memory of the city relevant to its architecture and urbanity. The study is done by sending screenshots of the applications in use in the public space for at least three times in a day during a period of 1 week in the city of Strasbourg. The participants recorded also their daily journeys during this week via applications "Open GPS Tracker" or "Open GPX Tracker" (two open source applications). At the end of each day, they sent us both screenshots and open tracker gpx files of their journey and a total of 70 journeys were analysed. Afterwards the paths of the participants with their digital activities have been correlated by superimposing cartographically physical places frequented and digital activities carried out on each journey. By digital activities we considered all activities related to the use of smartphones, these activities may be related to the internet or not but they are categorically achievable through smartphones (messaging, communications applications, entertainment, etc.). We observed that the flow elements, such as public transport, constituted a good physical place where the diversity of digital activities was increased. Furthermore we saw that the nature of the subject's presence in the public space (rest, passage, movement via the different systems of transport, etc.) was associated with his/her digital movements. Moreover, some physical locations were more appropriate for digital activities than the others interestingly. Our work with a modest sample offered clues of the emergence of these new layers by the use of technological devices. Global computer knowledge is transformed into a mobile technical object and shared worldwide via smartphones. These objects are not just mere results of global knowledge, but they also produce socio-territorial knowledge by revealing the relations between the invisible or non-visible elements of territories and users. In other words, the people's digital and physical mobility with new individualized objects forms new layers of territories that we name Mobile Territories. We found and illustrated with many attractive examples, for the first time, that the nature of the digital activities of the participants is shaped according to their physical location and own speed. And vice-versa, the physical location appeared to be augmented according to digital activities. By establishing connections between the digital activities and physical location, we understood that the both are moving in accordance with their relationships. Possible readings of the morphological and social characteristics of cities via layers of Mobile Territories, the consequences and the effects of these invisible layers would be remarkable for planners and architects.