Duarte, F., & de Souza e Silva, A. (2014). Arte.mov, Mobilefest and the emergence of a mobile culture in Brazil. In G. Goggin, & L. Hjorth (Eds.). The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (pp. 206-215). New York: Routledge.
Translation in Portuguese: Duarte, F., & de Souza e Silva, A. (2016). Arte.mov, Mobilefest e o surgimento de uma cultura da mobilidade no Brasil. In F. Santos & R. Câmara (Eds.), Urbanidade / Mediações. Brasília: Estereográfica Editorial.
de Souza e Silva, A., & Gordon, E. (2014). Net Locality. In P. Adey, D. Bissell, K. Hannam, P. Merriman & M. Sheller (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (pp. 134-142). New York: Routledge.
de Souza e Silva, A., & Frith, J. (2014). Re-narrating the city through the presentation of location. In J. Farman (Ed.). The Mobile Story: Narrative practices with locative technologies (pp. 39-49). New York: Routledge.
de Souza e Silva, A. (2013). Mobile narratives: Reading and writing urban space with location-based technologies. In N. K. Hayles, & J. Pressman (Eds.). Comparative Textual Media: Transforming humanities in the postprint era (pp. 33-52). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
de Souza e Silva, A., & Gordon, E. (2013). The waning distinction between private and public: Net locality and the restructuring of space. In K. Gates (Ed.). The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, volume VI: Media Studies Futures (pp.195-214). Boston: Blackwell.
de Souza e Silva, A. (2013). Location-aware mobile technologies: Historical, social, and spatial approaches. Mobile Media and Communication, 1 (1), 116-121. DOi: 10.1177/2050157912459492.
Translation in Portuguese: de Souza e Silva, A. (2013). Tecnologias móveis de posicionamento: Abordagens históricas, sociais e espacias. Verso e Reverso, XXVII (64), 19-23. DOI: 10.4013/ver.2013.27.64.03.
Gordon, E., & de Souza e Silva, A. (2012). The urban dynamics of net localities: How mobile and location-aware technologies are transforming place. In R. Wilken & G. Goggin (Eds.). Mobile Technology and Place (pp. 89-103). New York: Routledge.
Shklovski, I., & de Souza e Silva, A. (2012). An urban encounter: Realizing online connectedness through local urban play. Information, Communication and Society, 16 (3), 340-361. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.756049.
Authors: Adriana de Souza e Silva and Jordan Frith
ISBN: 978-0415506007
Published: March 10, 2012
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Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the Internet anywhere and anytime, they can also use their devices to map their precise geographic coordinates – and access location-specific information like restaurant reviews, historical information, and locations of other people nearby. The proliferation of location-aware mobile technologies calls for a new understanding of how we define public spaces, how we deal with locational privacy, and how networks of power are developed today.
In Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces, Adriana de Souza E. Silva and Jordan Frith examine these social and spatial changes by framing the development of location-aware technology within the context of other mobile and portable technologies such as the book, the Walkman, the iPod, and the mobile phone. These technologies work as interfaces to public spaces – that is, as symbolic systems that not only filter information but also reshape communication relationships and the environment in which social interaction takes place. Yet rather than detaching people from their surroundings, the authors suggest that location-aware technologies may ultimately strengthen our connections to locations.
Review:
Schrock, A. R. (2012). Mobile interface theory: Location-aware mobile devices in urban environments, International Journal of Communication, 6, 2082-10.
de Souza e Silva, A.. (2011). Art by Telephone: From static to mobile interfaces. In M. Rieser (Ed.), The Mobile Audience: Media art and mobile technologies (pp. 67-80). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
