Mobile communication and new sense of places: a critique of spatialization in cyberculture
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 te...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pontíficia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2009-06-01
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| Series: | Galáxia |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.pucsp.br/galaxia/article/view/1914 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1519-311X 1982-2553 |