Mobile Devices

This paper aims at investigating the emergence of new forms of communication environments supported by the integration of new mobile and locative media technologies and the impact that the implementation of these systems may have on mediated communication within the urban context. The paper focuses on such systems accessed via mainly 3D interfaces and supported by different output devices (mobile phone screen, augmented reality HMDs etc.), which may ultimately afford a hybrid (synthetic & physical) spatial experience and a novel form of social interaction. Cities, as complex systems and contexts supporting communication are being re-ordered by technological systems and networks. Advances in mobile and wireless communication technologies (new mobile devices, GPS enabled phones etc.) and a series of location-based activities (games, socialising services, commercial applications and artworks) have begun to transform the potential for social relations taking place within the urban public space, as well as our perception of public spaces in general. Firstly the paper discusses the technologies supporting such systems: interactive 3D graphics interfaces for mobile devices, locative media, augmented reality interfaces. Then, the paper investigates the experience of interacting with such systems from a user's perspective. Finally, the impact of utilizing these systems for supporting interpersonal mediated communication within the urban context is discussed. Consequently, these emerging types of communication may lead to a new kind of agora, involving new forms of civic, cultural and political participation. Of particular interest to this paper is the manner in which the spatial context, where "situated" communication occurs, is transformed by the introduction of these technologies. The emergence of locative-ness re-introduces the parameter of real location within the communication activity thus mapping the "virtual" mental space of communication to the physical space where the real bodies of communicating participants exist. Another important parameter taken into account in the paper is the actual interface through which each participant experiences the process. III CONGRÉS INTERNACIONAL COMUNICACIÓ I REALITAT D. CHARITOS, K. DIAMANTAKI, A. GAZI, M. MEIMARIS

Galáxia, 2008

The underlying idea of this paper can be expressed as follows: informational mobile technologies have enabled new means of communication and sociability based on what I call "informational territories". What is at stake here is to question some visions about the relationship between informational technologies and place, territory, community and mobility. I will argue that, under the label of "locative media", new mobile technologies are creating new forms of territorialization (control, surveillance, tracking) and new meanings of space, place, and territory, contradicting the theory of "non-place" or "no sense of place". Moreover, this impels us to argue the ideas of anomie and isolation with the emergence of new forms of sociability and community created by location-based services.

… (HOIT2003), The Center for Research on …, 2003

In discussing the effect of the use of mobile phones, this chapter is not about the device itself but rather all that it engenders. The mobile phone is a means of achieving continuous connectivity provoking feelings of intimacy and of being permanently tethered to loved ones as well as of being on call to less welcome people. It is the ways that people have adapted existing social practices to manage this that lies at the heart of the explanation of whether or not people are affected by their mobile phones. Three case studies from research are used to provide an empirical context for examining the topic. This research was conducted during two years of studies1 completed in 2004 that investigated the social shaping of the new third generation mobile phone technology. Theoretical aspects are addressed by exploring some of the ways in which others have examined the sentient aspects of our lives to reveal the complex mesh of elements that affect everyday life. It continues by highlighting analogies between these writings and the social practices of mobile phone users identified in the research

Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 68, 2013

Introduction. The incorporation of mobile phones in the daily life of human being not only alters space and time dimensions, but it also changes the perception and the way we relate with the ecosystem. Methodology. The state of the art is analyzed from the technological concept of intimacy, used by Boyce and Hancock, which describes the levels of interaction between man and technology. Then, a methodology to explore issues increasingly pressing is proposed, especially, concerning the delimitation of public and private spheres and the interaction in the common space. Results and conclusions. Following in particular the theories of Castells, Heidegger, Meyrowitz and Habermas; a set of categories for deepening the concepts of spatialization, willingness and profile are articulated. These concepts are identified as key elements in this first stage of the project for the analysis of the human being as a communication portal.

Mobile is the only digital device which is associated intensively with modern urban youth.

Convergence: The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies, 2005

In considering the mobile phone I shall here return to a text by Shuhei Hosokawa on an earlier form of mobile media, 'The Walkman Effect'. 1 This text, published just a few years after Sony's introduction of the Walkman in 1980, is less about the Walkman as technological artifact than about the emergence of a cultural object at a specific historical moment, with the event of the Walkman -or Walkman as event -and with the kind of spatial and urban strategies it makes possible. In March 2005 Sony Ericsson unveiled the Walkman phone, but my interest is likewise not in the evolution of the mobile as media player or multifunction device. 2 Rather, I shall consider Hosokawa's insights into the relationship between the Walkman and the embodiment and context of Walkman users, and how these can help us to account for the way that the mobile phone operates simultaneously as a node within networks and the point of intersection between the virtual space of telecommunications and physical or embodied space. Like Hosokawa, I am interested less in the object in itself, than in the object 'under use'. I shall approach this by drawing upon a consideration of the practice of artists and technologists exploring social and creative applications of mobile technology, as well as upon certain representations of the mobile phone user within popular culture.

2006

The interventions of portable digital devices such as mobile telephones, mp3 players, PDAs and many others, have contributed to the formation of contemporary notions of space. The impact of these devices' mobility (informing the users' mobility) could even be paralleled to the shift from the effects of still photography to those of film in the 19th century. Especially important for the perspective of this study is the notion that mobile telephony is said to enhance the complexity of subjective space - for example by its passive aural communication functions questioning and relativising existing spatial boundaries. As this study can exemplify in many cases, the shift in spatialities is one that is first and foremost one that involves subjectivities - ?objective? space remains unchanged, although the rhetoric of telecommunication hastens to suggest this. What has actually changed are the social institutions in public environments, implementing a variety of significant changes ...

3rd International e-Conference on Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences: Conference Proceedings, 2019

This study aims to present that the most visible and drastic changes in the life of modern humans are caused by the globalization process. The main thesis through which are analyzed these changes are: (1) the globalization of the structure of social space (properties and manifestations); (2) the risk as a major category of a globalized social space; (3) extraterritoriality of the individual's personal identity; (4) segmentation and the new boundaries of the global space; (5) the mobile man; and (6) mobility, as a new paradigm of the social knowledge. Because of the dynamic changes in our societies, it is increasingly difficult to use scientific instruments that have been working well in the past relatively more sustainable societies. The old toolbox will become inefficient in relation of the processes that directly affect the human psyche. The more adaptable among us will deal easily with the challenges of everyday life, but people who struggle with quick adaptation will experience mental disorders and will be more likely to suffer from mental diseases, with never seen before sizes.

2010