Mobile and Locative Media

Short reviews of articles about net art and net conditions (published on the net without paywalls). The reviews in alphabetical order were a part of IASLonline Lessons in NetArt. Links refer to texts with informations on the history of NetArt and web specific, for NetArt relevant problems since April 2002. The list was expanded in March 2003 with links to platforms, portals, mailing lists and newsgroups with actual informations on NetArt, net conditions and activism, databases for Intermedia Art and book reviews in "IASLonline Rezensionen". Subject-oriented websites are considered as platforms if they are more than curated links and contain artistic projects in their database. The links to articles on actual aspects of NetArt are added since February 2004. The dates of the entries are listed in brackets (month/year). Since May 2015 the links are not only listed in alphabetical order, but in chronological order, too (see below). The last reviews are from September 2022. If you download the PDF then you can use the links. URL: https://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/NALinke.html

Short reviews of articles about net art and net conditions (published on the net without paywalls). The reviews in chronological order were a part of IASLonline Lessons in NetArt.
Links refer to texts with informations on the history of NetArt and web specific, for NetArt relevant problems since April 2002. The list was expanded in March 2003 with links to platforms, portals, mailing lists and newsgroups with actual informations on NetArt, net conditions and activism, databases for Intermedia Art and book reviews in "IASLonline Rezensionen". Subject-oriented websites are considered as platforms if they are more than curated links and contain artistic projects in their database. The links to articles on actual aspects of NetArt are added since February 2004. The dates of the entries are listed in brackets (month/year). Since May 2015 the links are not only listed in alphabetical order, but in chronological order, too. The last reviews are from September 2022.
If you download the PDF then you can use the links.
URL: https://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/NALinkechron.html

This thesis aims to reconsider the binary way HCI approaches interaction in a world with ever emerging technologies, e.g virtual reality. Taking inspiration from disability studies and cyborg theory, I present the Neurodivergent individual as a cyborg, and their brain as technology. Building on postphenomenological ideas, the neurodivergent brain is in fact a technological mediator between the individual and the world. By applying
postphenomenological concepts and connecting these with approaches from human-computer interaction, I
build an analytical approach that attempts to demonstrate what happens when we investigate the human brain  as technology. Interviewing fellow neurodivergents, I discover mundane life is all about entanglements held together by interactions in increasing liminality. As digital technologies bring this liminality to totality, I propose the concept of interactions as swarms, and call for neurodiverging HCI.

I will describe and analyze the constraints and affordances of an interview between Wolfgang Tillmans and Mathew Rolfe on a digital interface, which is accessible from any web browser on "the size of the display of whatever screen you happen to be reading it on. 1 " Tillmans' exhibition, To Look Without Fear was on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario from April 7th to October 1st, 2023. The transcribed conversation about Tillmans's creative process and show was published in Foyer, a digital magazine established recently, in 2023 by the AGO. In particular, I will look at the digital format, the paratext surrounding the conversation, and the readership this website creates and encourages. To view the interview, I opened the URL on my laptop, but it could have been accessed from any device. Technological developments have improved the design and quality of digital platforms, and Foyer's is highly stylized, minimalistic, with clear, legible black text, contrasted on a white background. Some of the most arresting components of this interface are the hyperlinks, advertisements and texts surrounding the interview. These are situated in the sidebar, header, navigation bar, and footer. The title of the article hangs slightly to the left, providing the gaze with no central focal point. To the right of the interview categorized under the title "FEATURES" in pink uppercase lettering are five suggested articles, from Foyer's current issue. Above the article are five hyperlinks that read "On View," "News.""Interviews & Profiles," "Perspectives,"and "RBC Art Pick." These titles are half as large as "In conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans"-note that the words "conversation" and "with" are in lowercase. At the very top of the page is a small black band with the words "Published by AGO." Below the article's title, and before the body of the article begins, there is a large photograph of a woman and a man, naked except for jackets, sitting in a tree. The page loading at a normal size does not have any of the articles available until the user scrolls past the image and page links. The push to read on to other links, and failure to immediately draw the reader into the writing about

The Campus Mysteries project developed an augmented reality game platform called fAR-Play and a learning game called Campus Mysteries with the platform. This paper reports on the development of the platform, the development of the game, and a assessment of the playability of the game. We conclude that augmented reality games are a viable model for learning and that the process of development is itself the site of learning.

O presente paper visa trazer, como comunicação científica, o case do projeto de Jornalismo Hiperlocal Lupa NH, este tido enquanto relato de experiência na busca do desenvolvimento de tecnologias sociais voltadas a processos comunicacionais de base comunitária. O projeto atua no bairro de Novo Horizonte, em Macapá (AP), com a perspectiva de coletar informações  e gerar base de dados a partir da geolocalização, por meio de aplicativo para dispositivos móveis e  com a visualização dos dados coletados via portal de transparência. O objetivo é promover autonomia cidadã nos fluxos de comunicação entre moradores(as), estudantes e professores da escola básica e do curso de Jornalismo da Universidade Federal do Amapá (Unifap), bem como abrir possibilidades de diálogo entre a comunidade com o poder público. A iniciativa pretende ainda  apresentar soluções e, com isso, empoderar habitantes da região para o enfrentamento de problemas, como os de infraestrutura urbana, recorrentes na localidade,...

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The disciplines of architecture, media studies, urban design, city planning, lighting design, digital design, urban studies, and art represented here, apply a range of paradigms and methods in addressing media-related phenomena. Such diversity makes a critical synthesis both stimulating from a perspective of reflecting on some relatively unfamiliar approaches, and also challenging due to the disparate discourses they each represent. This chapter undertakes analytical summaries of contributions within the three sections, with section overviews synthesising conclusions through a number of key themes arising from the chapter findings and propositions-First, these include the multiple roles that locative media interfaces (both interactive and passive forms) seem to play in individuals' interactions with a range of places at varying scales, and their perceptions of its value. The considerations of how 'framing'-of observation, and of contents-effects either more specific or habitual adoption of these media also recurred in a number of guises. Secondly, in terms of how socialmedia interfaces with spatial representations, the findings and propositions advanced here, also suggest the potential benefits of gamification interventions and urban props in public spaces, and their required locational /design limitations for effectiveness. An exploration of the level of social interactions facilitated in spaces, used the medium of media screens yielding counter-intuitive results about static versus dynamic locations. The outcomes of multiple applications and platforms in a campus context, appear to be possible outliers in considering both locative and social media (within specific time frames). This was followed by critique of prevailing top-down, datadriven approaches to the 'smart city' in terms of the data neutrality, representational agency and scale problems they have engendered, highlighting the limitation of this dominant narrative. In contrasting these with emerging design counter-practices, opportunities for re-purposing ('hacking') such data platforms for a more localised, collective, inclusive, and bottom-up, 'smart-citizenship' were posed. Thirdly, continuing the focus on technology-mediated public space interventions, the dangers of

In this particular moment of cultural evolution, from mass media to digital media, the space factor is gaining a considerable relevance: especially the relationship between mediated and physical space is of particular interest because it recalls the archetypal figure of the labyrinth, and at the same time it involves the latest technologies of communication, from the various forms of digital gaming to the augmented reality. The connection between interactive media and urban space is now physiologic, and the scenery is becoming even more interesting because it encourages experimentation in new forms of communication and expression. Particularly, the most advanced art forms provide very interesting examples of interactive use of urban spaces as places of imagination, fiction, emotion.

The Campus Mysteries project developed an augmented reality game platform called fAR-Play and a learning game called Campus Mysteries with the platform. This paper reports on the development of the platform, the development of the game, and a assessment of the playability of the game. We conclude that augmented reality games are a viable model for learning and that the process of development is itself the site of learning.

The process of listening to an audiobook is usually a rather passive act that does not require an active interaction. If spatial interaction is incorporated into a storytelling scenario, can open. Possibilities of a novel experience which allows an active participation might affect the user-experience. The aim of this paper is to create a portable prototype system based on an embedded hardware platform, allowing listeners to get immersed in an interactive audio storytelling experience enhanced by dynamic binaural audio rendering. For the evaluation of the experience, a short story based on the horror narrative of Stephen King’s Strawberry Springs is adapted and designed in virtual environments. A comparison among three different listening experiences, namely, (i) monophonic (traditional audio story), (ii) static binaural rendering (state-of-the-art audio story), and (iii) our prototype, is conducted. We discuss the quality of the experience based on usability testing, physiological ...

The Campus Mysteries project developed an augmented reality game platform called fAR-Play and a learning game called Campus Mysteries with the platform. This paper reports on the development of the platform, the development of the game, and a assessment of the playability of the game. We conclude that augmented reality games are a viable model for learning and that the process of development is itself the site of learning.

Os textos digitais são as possibilidades de organização das mensagens e da
geração de semioses nos formatos. Entendemos esses textos como possibilidades de escrita digital jornalística, já que é a partir deles que as linguagens digitais são combinadas, recombinadas e estruturadas pelos formatos. Cada texto em si já é uma área de pesquisa estabelecida no campo da comunicação digital, com diferentes estruturalidades (o que significa dizer, modelizados por diferentes sistemas) e características que os diferem. Assim, exemplificamos e apontamos os sistemas modelizantes dos aplicativos/programas, games, hipermídia, RSS (agregadores), realidade aumentada, redes sociais, blogs, crowdsourcing, wikis, geolocalização, visualização de bases de dados e websemântica, tags e metadados.

This paper explores the embodied experience of smartphone users in urban darkness, and considers how the geo-locative and network functionality of mobile media impacts upon the perception of safety and risk at night. City spaces at nighttime are often perceived as less safe, and the habitual trust we place in familiar strangers during the day can become imbued with caution, suspicion and fear. Much of the research in this area neglects the impact of both the networked infrastructure of the city – what de Souza e Silva and Sutko (2009) term “net-local space” – and the place of mobile media in people’s nighttime practices and their experience and perception of the urban dark. This paper draws on original ethnographic data collected in Perth and Melbourne from 2015-2017 to examine how mobile devices as both communicative and location-aware interfaces are used to provide women with a perceived or ‘felt’ sense of bodily safety and security, and the potential implications this has on user...

Location data are routinely available to a plethora of mobile apps and third party web services. The resulting datasets are increas­ ingly available to advertisers for targeting and also requested by governmental agencies for law enforcement purposes. While the re-identification risk of such data has been widely reported, the dis­ criminative power of mobility has received much less attention. In this study we fill this void with an open and reproducible method. We explore how the growing number of geotagged footprints left behind by social network users in photosharing services can give rise to inferring demographic information from mobility patterns. Chiefly among those, we provide the first detailed analysis of ethnic mobility patterns in two metropolitan areas. This analysis allows us to examine questions pertaining to spatial segregation and the ex­ tent to which ethnicity can be inferred using only location data. Our results reveal that even a few location records at a coarse ...

Foursquare is a location-based social network (LBSN) that combines gaming elements with features conventionally associated with social networking sites (SNSs). Following two qualitative studies, this article sets out to explore what impact this overlaying of physical environments with play has on everyday life and experiences of space and place. Drawing on early understandings of play, alongside the flâneur and ‘phoneur’ as respective methods for conceptualizing play in the context of mobility and urbanity, this article examines whether the suggested division between play and ordinary life is challenged by Foursquare, and if so, how this reframing of play is experienced. Second, this article investigates what effect this LBSN has on mobility choices and spatial relationships. Finally, the novel concept of the ‘phoneur’ is posited as a way of understanding how pervasive play through LBSNs acts as a mediating influence on the experience of space and place.

e process of listening to an audiobook is usually a rather passive act that does not require an active interaction. If spatial interaction is incorporated into a storytelling scenario, can open. Possibilities of a novel experience which allows an active participation might a ect the user-experience. e aim of this paper is to create a portable prototype system based on an embedded hardware platform, allowing listeners to get immersed in an interactive audio storytelling experience enhanced by dynamic binaural audio rendering. For the evaluation of the experience, a short story based on the horror narrative of Stephen King's Strawberry Springs is adapted and designed in virtual environments. A comparison among three di erent listening experiences, namely, (i) monophonic (traditional audio story), (ii) static binaural rendering (state-of-the-art audio story), and (iii) our prototype, is conducted. We discuss the quality of the experience based on usability testing, physiological data, emotional assessments, and questionnaires for immersion and spatial presence. Results identify a clear trend for an increase in immersion with our prototype compared to traditional audiobooks, showing also an emphasis on story-speci c emotions, i.e., terror and fear.

As the Android operating system is getting more popular, the user for the mobile device are now more paying attention on the application of mobile device. This report presents the music player application with firebase and advertising free for the Android Platform. The music player application will obtain the music files and plays the music.. This application integrates the Intent APIs of various applications and mapping the data from firebase which is to be segregated and is integrated onto our music player.

Researchers generally have not been able to keep up with the rapid pace of mobile app innovation in many ways. One of those holes is with typology. Not being able to clearly describe mobile app artifacts, as a way to start a discussion about them, is a key factor holding researchers back. This chapter splinters off a promising but relatively underdeveloped genre of mobile apps, the locative ones that juxtapose interactive digital media with particular physical environments, for closer examination and better labeling. This piece quickly provides theoretical, historical, and contextual overviews to help situate locative apps as a genre of importance. It then provides informal frameworks, as thought exercises, for examining and understanding apps through a locative perspective. Two cases, also led by the author, will then be taken through this process to illustrate what can be learned from it, followed by reflections and suggestions for related future areas of inquiry.

One of the aims of cyberpragmatics (Yus) is to explain the role that interfaces play in the (un)successful outcome of virtual interactions, and their mediation in the management of the relevance-related formula of comprehension. However, many things have changed in the way internet is used nowadays compared to the role that it played in the early years of this century, together with a radical change in the presence of internet in people's lives (a non-stop connection, blurred physical-virtual contexts for interactions, etc.). This chapter will be devoted to today's locative media and the way in which cyberpragmatics can address the impact of location-based media on the quality of today's communication, both in physical and virtual environments.

Probabilmente va ascritto a Walter Benjamin, alla sua labirintica opera sui Passages (1982) parigini, il merito di aver "visto"-sulla scorta dell'intuizione di Baudelaire, ma in chiave quasi postmoderna-lo spazio metropolitano come luogo dove il flâneur compie, con i suoi vagabondaggi, un'attività che può essere considerata una sorta di lettura della città mediatizzata.

The cultural impact of digital media on developments of Public Art presents itself through several interconnected aspects:
- The possibility of implementing - through the definition of semantic ontologies - a rigorous conceptualization of historical-artistic, aesthetic and functional taxonomies within which to position a work or an activity;
- The development of media spectacularization in urban spaces, through: a) advanced systems for projection on building facades (Media Walls); b) the production of communicative and aesthetic situations based on Augmented Reality; c) the use of devices such as Google Glass, that allow to go through the urban spaces enabling a strong interaction with the information repositories related to visited places; d) the visualization of open/big data in forms characterized by a high emotional involvement, such as dynamic infographics or data based storytelling;
- The diffusion of mobile devices, that are replacing at a high rate the traditional desktop computers, leading to two major consequences for Public Art: a) a change in the cognitive, aesthetic and emotional expectations by the user in mobility; b) the possibility of automatically tracing the movements of the user, in order to experiment new ways for detecting and defining the behavior and the enjoyment of people in Public Art;
- The development and increasing complexity of social networks: the traditional ones (Facebook, Twitter), but also the newer ones, which are useful to identify the esthetic and cultural orientation of the user (Instagram, Pinterest, Cowbird, Medium, etc.. ), and allow to imagine new forms of emotional and cultural participation of the audience, especially in situations of advanced tourism.

The research aims to build an unitary interpretative model in which the different components listed above are discussed in their mutual relations. Taking into account the most advanced international examples in this field, and considering the most relevant paradigms in the area of digital media (Media Convergence, Socio-Spatial Theory, Digital Citizenship, Gamification, Transmedia Strategy) the research will assess the impact of digital media over traditional policies of Contemporary Public Art, in order to provide some guidelines for the self-evaluation of interpretation categories and to set up the planning of the operational actions.

L’Interactive Storytelling deriva dalla connessione di due componenti sempre più importanti sulla scena dei media digitali: Interactive e Storytelling, entrambi termini ombrello che coprono realtà molto diverse ma con molti punti di contatto. Il saggio individua quattro tipi di Interactive Storytelling, riconducibili a quattro diverse fasi nell’evoluzione dei media digitali: il primo, quello computazionale, rappresenta la situazione di stand–alone, dell’utente da solo di fronte alla macchina, che risale a qualche anno fa; il secondo, quello partecipativo, rappresenta la grande diffusione della rete, con l’avvento della connettività pervasiva; il terzo, quello transmediale, si instaura con estendersi sempre più marcato della convergenza digitale e degli spreadable media; il quarto, quello urbano, segna l’avvento del paradigma mobile–locative, con la grande diffusione dei terminali mobili e il riposizionamento dei processi culturali nello spazio fisico. Complessivamente l’Interactive Storytelling risulta essere un indicatore delle varie fasi delle evoluzioni tecno–sociali dei media digitali, e proprio per questa capacità adattiva rappresenta uno strumento efficiente per individuare le articolazioni dell’attuale panorama culturale ipermediato.

This paper proposes to review the current concept of paratext, taking into account how the techno-cultural peculiarities of digital media force us to consider new aspects of textuality, particularly the relationship between space and time. Three factors of change are examined: the opposition between deep structure and surface structure; the modularity of digital texts; the mobile/locative paradigm. The relationship between ephemerality and resilience is also briefly considered, as it is closely connected to the logical organization of contemporary textuality in digital media.

This paper examines how the advent of the mobile/locative paradigm redefines the role of the body (embodiment) in the cultural processes of Digital Media, extending the notion of storytelling from a simple author–text–user relationship, mediated by the screen interface, into a complex narrative project that positions the body and its media competences within a precise physical space characterized by geographical, historical and cultural coordinates. The mobile/locative paradigm is based on the sum of the technological, perceptive, emotional, cognitive, behavioural, cultural characteristics that are determined by the ever increasing spread of smartphones, used not so much as interpersonal communication devices but mostly as devices to access the net and hence media products. It is a decided change in paradigm compared to the static fruition that has always typified the relationship with the mass media (cinema, TV, performing arts, desktop computer), since the mobility of the media end-user gives a strong relevance to the location in which the fruition takes place. Geo-positioning, end-user tracking, the enormous amount of encyclopaedic data that can be associated to the presence of that body in that place in that moment determine a profound change in cultural processes: with the diffusion of Digital Media space becomes text, since it is automatically read and written by the body of the user; and at the same time text becomes space, since the textuality of Digital Media is characterised by immersiveness, interactivity, multidimensionality, and thus by the accessibility which is typical of spaces be they real or virtual (Lughi 2013).

For those who have access to them, locative digital technologies are becoming increasingly pervasive in everyday life. It is therefore important to understand the processes by which such technologies are shaping how people engage with the world. This thesis uses a postphenomenological approach to examine these processes in the context of geocaching, a locative digital game that combines aspects of treasure hunting and orienteering. In particular, this thesis focuses on how technologies indirectly mediate how geocachers engage with the world; that is, how technologies might shape experience even when they are not co-present with humans. Interpreting data from interviews and participant observations conducted in metropolitan Melbourne, this thesis discusses how indirect technological mediations shape a geocaching world and a geocaching subjectivity. Firstly, it argues that directly mediated social relations shape the parts of the landscape that geocachers engage with and give rise to a shared mode of interpreting that landscape. Secondly, it argues that differentiated access to digital information creates a divide between the worlds of geocachers and non-geocachers, compelling geocachers to employ distinctive modes of interacting with and being in the landscape while playing the game. Its findings suggest that embodied interactions with technologies may create the conditions for the indirect mediating effects of technologies, but that we require further investigation to better understand the intricacies of indirect mediation. Hence, this thesis not only develops a relatively under-theorised aspect of technological mediation, but also contributes rich empirical data to understandings of geocaching and experiences of public space more generally.

Portage: the Canadian Mobile Experience is a research and development project that examines social and technical opportunities for artists and designers emerging out of the rapidly evolving field of mobile media. In this paper we examine the links between locative mobile experiences and our research, innovation and design methodologies, with attention to emerging social and aesthetic issues, particularly: democratic agency, collaboration and co-creation, and the problems resulting from technological access issues. This paper reviews how our methodologies enable these considerations and feed creative production, including the participation of artists, designers, academics, students and cultural industry partners. Finally, the paper argues that collaborative research and development methods facilitate innovative research that hinges locative, mobile experience to a politicized social interaction agenda.

O uso de dispositivos móveis cresceu consideravelmente nos últimos anos. Essas tecnologias tornam-se responsáveis por fundir, em um mesmo universo, várias formas de comunicação das pessoas com o mundo, criando situações de dependência e de pertencimento. Mais recentemente, a gestão urbana vem utilizando smartphones e aplicativos como ferramentas auxiliares na identificação e resolução de demandas. Questiona-se como o uso desses dispositivos influenciam a utilização do espaço urbano, em termos de reconhecimento, de permanência e de valorização. É objetivo desta pesquisa caracterizar influências do uso de smartphones no meio urbano, a partir do levantamento de possíveis impactos relacionados ao uso de aplicativos. A pesquisa, baseada em análise de discurso simplificada, categorizou aplicativos utilizando-os
como objetos elucidativos para os conceitos teóricos. Concluiu-se, que,
neste recorte, o conceitos de espaço ampliado é reconhecível, presente não apenas nas relações entre pessoas e tecnologias, mas também no incentivo ou desestímulo de utilização dos espaços.

RESUMO Este artigo busca como principal objetivo explicar de que forma funcionam esses dispositivos que tem como finalidade a posição geográfica e o senso de localização através de ferramentas altamente tecnológicas. Suas utilidades vão de aprimoramento das relações de consumo à produção de conteúdo Jornalístico mudando significativamente a forma como os usuários absorvem a informação. A partir disso, este trabalho realizou uma pesquisa de campo a partir de análises de diversos pesquisadores na área e também um breve mapeamento de portais que utilizam a hiperlocalidade como recurso na produção de conteúdo no Brasil.

With the proliferation of the iPod and related audio mobile technologies in our daily experiences, Shuhei Hosokawa’s “The Walkman Effect” (1984) gains new significance. While exploring the locative aspects of these technologies for media art, I elaborate on Hosokawa’s idea of a “secret theatre” by paralleling it to some compelling concepts in audio (culture) studies, such as Michael Bull’s “auditized looking,” Elisabeth Weis’ “écouterism,” Denis Hollier/Jean Paul Sartre’s “auditory gaze,” and Steven Connor’s “modern auditory I.” As case studies, I focus on three performative audio walks that all took place in train stations around 2012-2013: Janet Cardiff’s Alter Bahnhof, Dries Verhoeven’s Niemandsland, and Judith Hoffland’s Like Me. Each in their own right reconfigures the urban experience by means of locative features and interactive relations with their environments. These art works help to see Hosokawa’s “secret theatre” in a new light of highly individualized yet relational aesthetic experiences that open our ears and eyes to an outside social context and reality rather than shut them off.

This article aims to discuss the emergence setting of Location‐Based
Services (LBS), services that integrate the geographical position of a
mobile device with information relating to the area, people and
activities nearby to it. In order to do so, five different experiences that
geographic information can provide to the person who consults or
shares it – discover, record, personalize, find and guide – are presented
from the interweaving of two factors: 1) the core technologies that
enable the development and use of these services and 2) the value of
geographic information as a social and strategic element.

A agregação de informação jornalística é um fenômeno emergente no jornalismo móvel caraterizada pela proliferação de aplicativos móveis (apps) desenvolvidos para selecionar e organizar conteúdos adaptados a smartphones e tablets. O avanço tecnológico impõe novas questões à investigação acadêmica, principalmente quando os aplicativos agregadores são comparados com as já tradicionais plataformas de agregação na web. Ao contrário dos computadores pessoais, dispositivos móveis são aparelhos de conexão permanente - tecnologias “always-on” (Baron, 2008; Turkle, 2011) – que se beneficiam de recursos com potencial inovador, como o sistema de geolocalização (GPS) e a tela sensível ao toque (Palacios et al, 2015). Estas e outras características dos novos meios agem sobre as funcionalidades dos aplicativos agregadores e a observação sistemática do fenômeno indica a ocorrência de alterações significativas na noção tradicional de informação jornalística.
Diante das evidências, esta tese investiga as transformações da informação jornalística nos aplicativos agregadores para dispositivos móveis. A partir de uma revisão crítica das teorias do jornalismo, o estudo sustenta a necessidade de explorar novas abordagens capazes de lidar com a emergência do “jornalismo pós-industrial” (Anderson, Bell, & Shirky, 2012). A suposta centralidade dos jornalistas e das redações profissionais é questionada para incorporar elementos historicamente negligenciados pelos investigadores. Desta forma, a exploração dos aplicativos agregadores é realizada a partir da Teoria Ator-Rede (Callon, 1999; Law, 1991; Latour, 2012), aporte teórico-metodológico que defende a simetria generalizada entre entidades humanas e não-humanas. O princípio da simetria permite compreender as entidades heterogêneas que atuam sobre a informação jornalística nos aplicativos.
O estudo é desenvolvido a partir de 28 aplicativos agregadores. A metodologia é realizada em três etapas sucessivas descritas pela Teoria Ator-Rede: “desdobramento”, “estabilização” e “composição”. As duas primeiras descrevem minuciosamente as entidades presentes no objeto de estudo e identificam tendências que confirmam a transformação da noção de informação jornalística nos aplicativos agregadores a partir de três vetores: os algoritmos, a interface com as redes sociais e a curadoria. A terceira etapa organiza os aplicativos em um quadro taxonômico construído a partir de quatro categorias: API (Application Programming Interface), curadoria, sistema de agregação e sistema de personalização.

Resumo Este artigo se propõe a apresentar uma reflexão sobre o projeto artístico-Territorialização do Desejo-, realizado na Exposição Coletiva intitulada Pós-happening / Art é Sex, em 13 de março de 2009, no Instituto de Arte da Universidade de Brasília. O instrumento utilizado para o desenvolvimento do trabalho foi um aparelho celular. Mensagens (MMS) de conteúdo sedutor foram enviadas para várias pessoas que estavam no espaço expositivo, por Bluetooth e por fototorpedos. O objetivo do trabalho foi promover a interação por afetação dos sentidos daqueles que recebiam as mensagens no momento da exposição. Esta experiência artística faz parte da pesquisa de doutorado, que se delineia como uma pesquisa prática-teórica, pois prevê a criação e produção de trabalhos artísticos multimidiáticos para compreensão dos processos e da estética contemporânea. Palavras-chave-corpo-mídia locativa-arte .

Abstrat This article intends to show a reflection over artistic projects – Territorialização do desejo – presented at the open art exposition named Pós-happening/Art é sex, which took place at UnB Art Institute, in March 13, 2009. Using cell phones, SMS messages with erotic content were sent to all people inside the exposition. Also the Bluetooth devices were used. The objective was to notice how the people interact after receiving the messages within the exposition. Part of a doctor's degree research, this experience foresee the beginning of multimedia art works for better understanding of the modern esthetics. Keywords – body-locative media-art 1 Professora Doutora em Arte Contemporânea , na linha de pesquisa em Arte e tecnologia pelo Instituto de Arte da Universidade de Brasília sob a orientação da professora Doutora Maria Luiza Fragoso (UFRJ)..

O artigo objetiva fazer uma análise do atual cenário de avanço das denominadas Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TICs) no campo da Comunicação tomando como referência analítica as mudanças nos processos informativos em nível (hiper)local. A partir dos novos paradigmas sociais, econômicos e tecnológicos consequentes do atual cenário de reconfiguração das plataformas, conteúdos e linguagens midiáticas, busca-se apresentar a trajetória que empreende a compreensão do denominado espaço hiperlocal. Tais análises servirão de preâmbulo para a discussão sobre o novo cenário no qual está inserido o processo de construção do Jornalismo rural com direção para novos panoramas no meio digital e suas implicações em nível local.

Within the last 15-20 years, digital technology has become ubiquitous as a component of how history is presented in the public domain. Within museums, for example, we find the presence of touch screen computers and the use of digital reconstructions. The online world presents us with diverse educational applications and archives, while, more recently, iPhone and Android apps have been released that are tied in with heritage and popular historical themes.

This dissertation explores the area of mobile phone apps in relation to oral history, particularly the potential that they have for further contextualising oral narratives by presenting them in the physical environments to which they relate, as part of a 'curated' sonic experience.

The focus for this work is largely technical and theoretical, since to also engage in further fieldwork, research and composition within the domains of oral history and sonic arts would likely extend this project far beyond the reasonable scope of a masters-level project. To this end, the work presented here concentrates on developing prototypes from existing work in the
domains of oral history and sonic arts as steps toward a more fully-fledged system for geolocative oral histories.

O presente artigo busca analisar certas mudanças narrativas e estéti- cas ao telejornalismo, como forma de concretizar uma estratégia aqui chama- da de câmera onipresente profissional, que envolve a produção, por parte das emissoras, de conteúdos carregados de sentido de autenticidade por explorar algum elemento da estética típica do amador, ainda que estejam visivelmente mediados pela instância jornalística. Entende-se que este fenômeno como uma forma de reação e resposta dos veículos de telejornalismo a um cenário de midiatização, no qual a proliferação dos dispositivos tecnológicos multiplica os registros visuais amadores, compreendidos pelos espectadores como mais genuínos e menos mediados. Deste modo, as linguagens telejornalísticas tendem a ser reconfiguradas – optando-se por efeitos de silenciamento, de perda de con- trole da enunciação e de uma baixa mediação por parte das emissoras – como forma de contemplar um espectador que tende a dominar e a desconfiar das já conhecidas linguagens midiáticas.

Facilitating and supporting various modes of social
interaction has been part of Mixed Reality (MRx)1
design experiments and discourse over the past twenty
years. But what vision of social interaction is sought
and advanced through Mixed Reality environments?
In this paper, I identify two dominant ways that social
interaction is envisioned in MRx designs, broadly construed
as material and political, and illustrated through
a series of examples. I further draw on them to highlight
the potentials, boundaries, and limitations of each with
regards to the kinds of social interactions that are
sought and cultivated through the integration of digital
media on physical space. I suggest that as MR
becomes mainstream, it is important to go beyond
these visions to consider whether and how MRx
environments might connect with the economic,
social, and cultural specificity of local sites to meaningfully
serve the always evolving social needs and purposes
of their communities.

Four decades ago Henri Lefebvre anticipated the complete urbanisation of the planet, which no longer seems so strange. Radical shifts seem to ap- pear in our experience of the city, through dislocations of self and body, the world and the earth. O’megaVille is a site-specific transmedia project that uses Google Street View as a performance platform for exploring critical approaches to planetary urbanism. This has involved dance work- shops in Mexico, mobile media actions and video installation in Montreal and New York, and a performance lecture in Toronto.
Its not my intention in this paper to give an Artist’s talk as such, but to explore the broader concepts and implications for O’megaVille. I’ll use Google Street View (GSV) to think about how media assemblages play an enactive role in the speculative nature of experience. How may GSV be seen to illustrate what I see as an emerging urban condition that is simultaneously planetary and embodied? What may be at stake here for bodies (broadly defined) that operate within a distributed field of forces? In part nonhuman, often inhuman. And how may these disruptions in the fabric of experience call for a speculative response?

Researchers generally have not been able to keep up with the rapid pace of mobile app innovation in
many ways. One of those holes is with typology. Not being able to clearly describe mobile app artifacts,
as a way to start a discussion about them, is a key factor holding researchers back. This chapter splinters
off a promising but relatively underdeveloped genre of mobile apps, the locative ones that juxtapose
interactive digital media with particular physical environments, for closer examination and better labeling.
This piece quickly provides theoretical, historical, and contextual overviews to help situate locative apps
as a genre of importance. It then provides informal frameworks, as thought exercises, for examining and
understanding apps through a locative perspective. Two cases, also led by the author, will then be taken
through this process to illustrate what can be learned from it, followed by reflections and suggestions
for related future areas of inquiry.

Este texto inicia uma discussão sobre possíveis reconfigurações pelas quais o jornalismo tem passado com o avanço das tecnologias móveis e ubíquas e das mídias locativas. Com base em pesquisa bibliográfica e observação assistemática de alguns aplicativos, o texto parte de discussões sobre o uso de dispositivos móveis e conceitos de jornalismo locativo e espacial para entender o lugar do conteúdo geolocalizado na comunicação contemporânea. Considera-se que tais tecnologias têm atuado nos modos de produzir e consumir informação e provocado rupturas em aspectos da prática jornalística, como nos critérios de noticiabilidade, na emergência do jornalismo cidadão ou participativo e na ampliação de espaços para o jornalismo de serviço ou utilitário. Ademais, infere-se que a exploração da distribuição de conteúdo locativo como nicho de negócio parece ainda ser ignorada pela imprensa.

O espaço urbano é construído a partir das relações de comunicação e interação que são estabelecidas entre pessoas, entre tecnologias e entre pessoas e tecnologias. O ambiente em que vivemos é permeado por tecnologias ubíquas geradores de "pontes" de comunicação e lugares específicos, os quais são compartilhados constituindo diversas relações de chaveamento entre mundos. Este conceito é o que Dominique Boullier, sociólogo francês, chama de "Habitele". A
participação no projeto "Habitele: wereable digital identities" originou o interesse pela pesquisa, que parte da crescente necessidade de entender estas novas formas de organização espacial. O objetivo é elucidar a noção de espaço ampliado e de
Habitele associando-a ao cenário urbano de disseminação tecnológica digital, com atenção especial para os smartphones e aplicativos desenvolvidos para estes aparelhos. A coleta de dados foi efetuada por meio de buscas na internet e a
seleção foi orientada pelos pressupostos teóricos relevantes para o tema. Identificou-se que existe um diálogo entre o físico e o digital, num cenário urbano composto por universos individuais plenos de informação, e por redes de dados em
escala macro. Sob o ponto de vista dos planos teórico e prático é necessário que pesquisas acerca da temática aqui trabalhada sejam realizadas visando a contribuição à gestão pública. Este estudo poderá contribuir para a compreensão de
algumas das influências das transformações tecnológicas sobre as dinâmicas do espaço urbano, agregando a  multidisciplinaridade exigida pelos temas relativos à
gestão urbana.

a) (b) (c) : (a) City space is used as an interface for music shuffling (b) Augmented urban scale model to design music space with superimposed avatar (c) Sensors, such as pacer meter, are adopted to shuffle music ABSTRACT This paper presents the concept and structure of a responsive music shuffling system, a popular playing mode but with contextawareness. We investigate current technologies for possible types of music listening applications made by multi-disciplinary design issue. Context-awareness, interactive soundscape, calm and ambient technology, and wearable computing are considered in the design process of mobile music listening. To facilitate cooperative design for different scenarios, we have implemented an augmented reality system which superimposes a 3D avatar and location-aligned information onto an urban scale model. Thus, proximity-triggered music is played while a scenario goes on visualizing on this tangible interface. Moreover, a lab prototype implemented with wearable sensors to automatically alter music playing demonstrates a new type of musical experience and powerful commercial product in the near future.

Technologies of space, information and power are integral aspects of cartography that have serious implications for the legibility and accessibility of a city.  This project develops the concept in three phases: first, a theoretical discussion of urban representation traced to historical notions of the commons; second, a description of research methodologies and summary of findings exposing a critical information inequality.  Third, the author outlines a locative media intervention as a design response.

1. ABSTRACT The accessibility of urban space is usually considered in terms of ergonomics and mobility. However, while physical accessibility enables spatial mobility, it does not ensure universal access to the city as a complex foundation for human social and cultural activities.

Stories Matter is a new oral history database tool designed by an interdisciplinary team of oral historians and a software engineer affiliated with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The software is intended to encourage a shift away from transcription, enabling oral historians to continue to interact with their interviews in an efficient manner without compromising the greater life history context of their interviewees. This article addresses some of the conceptual challenges that arose when developing this software.