Mobility and locative media : mobile communication in hybrid spaces
07 Aug 2014-
TL;DR: De Souza e Silva et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a toolbox for the "Programmable City" and an ICT "Toolbox" for urban planning. But the toolbox is limited to the use of mobile devices.
Abstract: Introduction: Moving Towards Adjacent Possibles Adriana de Souza e Silva & Mimi Sheller Part I: Re-thinking Cohesion, Coordination, and Navigation 1. Mobile Phones and Digital Gemeinschaft: Social Cohesion in the Era of Cars, Clocks and Mobile Phones Rich Ling 2. Walking in the Hybrid City: From Micro-Coordination to Chance Orchestration Robbin van der Akker 3. Direct Video Observation of the uses of Smartphones on the Move: Reconceptualizing Mobile Multi-Activity Christian Licoppe & Julien Figeac 4. Rerouting Borders: Politics of Mobility and the Transborder Immigrant Tool Fernanda Duarte Part II: Performing Location, Place-Making, and Mobile Gaming 5. Online Place Attachment: Exploring Technological Ties to Physical Places Raz Schwartz 6. Location as a Sense Of Place: Everyday Life, Mobile and Spatial Practices in Urban Spaces Didem OEzkul 7. Performing City Transit Taien Ng Chan 8. Location-Based Gaming Apps and the Commercialization of Locative Media Dale Leorke 9. Houses in motion: An Overview of Gamification in the Context of Mobile Interfaces Nathan Hulsey Part III: Mobile Cities: Mapping, Architecture and Planning 10. Exploring Locative Media for Cultural Mapping Peter Hemmersam, Jonny Aspen, Andrew Morrison, Idunn Sem, & Martin Havnor 11. Designing for Mobile Activities: Wifi Hotspots, Users and the Relational Programming of Place Michael Doyle 12.The Power of Place and Perspective: Sensory Media and Situated Simulations in Urban Design Gunnar Liestol & Andrew Morrison 13. The Will to Connection: A Research Agenda for the "Programmable City" and an ICT "Toolbox" for Urban Planning Ole B. Jensen Epilogue 14. Restless: Locative Media as Generative Displacement Teri Rueb
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TL;DR: This article proposes a participatory cultural mapping approach based on collective behavior in LBSNs, and shows that the approach can subtly capture cultural features and generate representative cultural maps that correspond well with traditional cultural maps based on survey data.
Abstract: Culture has been recognized as a driving impetus for human development. It co-evolves with both human belief and behavior. When studying culture, Cultural Mapping is a crucial tool to visualize different aspects of culture (e.g., religions and languages) from the perspectives of indigenous and local people. Existing cultural mapping approaches usually rely on large-scale survey data with respect to human beliefs, such as moral values. However, such a data collection method not only incurs a significant cost of both human resources and time, but also fails to capture human behavior, which massively reflects cultural information. In addition, it is practically difficult to collect large-scale human behavior data. Fortunately, with the recent boom in Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs), a considerable number of users report their activities in LBSNs in a participatory manner, which provides us with an unprecedented opportunity to study large-scale user behavioral data. In this article, we propose a participatory cultural mapping approach based on collective behavior in LBSNs. First, we collect the participatory sensed user behavioral data from LBSNs. Second, since only local users are eligible for cultural mapping, we propose a progressive “home” location identification method to filter out ineligible users. Third, by extracting three key cultural features from daily activity, mobility, and linguistic perspectives, respectively, we propose a cultural clustering method to discover cultural clusters. Finally, we visualize the cultural clusters on the world map. Based on a real-world LBSN dataset, we experimentally validate our approach by conducting both qualitative and quantitative analysis on the generated cultural maps. The results show that our approach can subtly capture cultural features and generate representative cultural maps that correspond well with traditional cultural maps based on survey data.
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TL;DR: An overview of the field of mobilities research can be found in this paper, where the authors trace the theoretical antecedents to the study of mobility both within the classical sociological tradition and at its borders with other disciplines or theoretical schools.
Abstract: This article offers an overview of the field of mobilities research, tracing the theoretical antecedents to the study of mobilities both within the classical sociological tradition and at its borders with other disciplines or theoretical schools. It examines how ‘the new mobilities paradigm’ differs from earlier approaches to globalization, nomadism, and flow, and outlines some of the key themes and research areas within the field, in particular the concepts of mobility systems, mobility capital, mobility justice, and movement-space. In addressing new developments in mobile methodologies and realist ontologies, this review of the field concludes with a call for an emergent vital sociology that is attentive to its own autopoiesis.
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...Dewsbury JD (2011) Dancing: The secret slowness of the fast. In: Cresswell T and Merriman P (eds) Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp. 51–68. Dodge M and Kitchin R (2011) Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Dudley G, Geels F and Kemp R (2011) Automobility in Transition? A Socio-technical Analysis of Sustainable Transport. New York and London: Routledge. Edensor T (2011) Commuter: Mobility, rhythm, commuting....
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...Dewsbury JD (2011) Dancing: The secret slowness of the fast. In: Cresswell T and Merriman P (eds) Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp. 51–68. Dodge M and Kitchin R (2011) Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Dudley G, Geels F and Kemp R (2011) Automobility in Transition? A Socio-technical Analysis of Sustainable Transport....
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...Dewsbury JD (2011) Dancing: The secret slowness of the fast. In: Cresswell T and Merriman P (eds) Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, pp. 51–68. Dodge M and Kitchin R (2011) Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life....
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TL;DR: As the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus swept around the world in 2020, outpacing public health efforts to contain it, many everyday human mobilities were brought to an abrupt halt, while others were drasticly reduced.
Abstract: As the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus swept around the world in 2020, outpacing public health efforts to contain it, many everyday human mobilities were brought to an abrupt halt, while others were drastic...
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...The field of mobility studies extends to geographers (e.g., Cresswell 2011, 2012, 2014), communication researchers (De Souza, Silva, and Sheller 2014), architects and designers (Jensen 2015), and others who not only study human (im)mobilities, but also the mobilities of objects, places, cities,…...
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TL;DR: It is found that a salient script of reciprocal violence within a local network is written online in real time and those writing this script anticipate, direct, historicize, and mourn neighborhood violence.
Abstract: Social media connects youth to peers who share shared experiences and support; however, urban gang-involved youth navigate ‘the digital street’ following a script that may incite violence. Urban gang-involved youth use SNS to brag and insult and make threats a concept known as Internet banging. Recent research suggests Internet banging has resulted in serious injury and homicide. We argue violence may be disseminated in Chicago through social media platforms like Twitter. We examine the Twitter communications of one known female gang member, Gakirah Barnes, during a two week window in which her friend was killed and then weeks later, she was also killed. We explore how street culture is translated online through the conventions of Twitter. We find that a salient script of reciprocal violence within a local network is written online in real time. Those writing this script anticipate, direct, historicize, and mourn neighborhood violence.
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...Scholars of social media increasingly study locality as the basis of communication (De Souza e Silva and Sheller, 2015)....
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...This study population uses networked platforms to manage travel and leisure (De Souza e Silva and Sheller, 2015; Gordon and De Souza e Silva, 2011; Humphreys, 2007; Humphreys and Liao, 2011)....
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