Smartphones as locative media / Jordan Frith.
2015
TK5105.65 .F78 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Smartphones as locative media / Jordan Frith.
Author
Frith, Jordan, author.
ISBN
9780745685014 (paperback)
0745685013 (paperback)
9780745685007 (hardcover)
0745685005 (hardcover)
0745685013 (paperback)
9780745685007 (hardcover)
0745685005 (hardcover)
Published
Cambridge, UK : Malden, MA : Polity, 2015.
Language
English
Description
x, 182 pages ; 21 cm.
Call Number
TK5105.65 .F78 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
004.167
Summary
"Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than 15 countries, and there are now more than one million mobile applications people can download to their phones. Many of these applications take advantage of smartphones as locative media, which is what allows smartphones to be located in physical space. Applications that take advantage of people's location are called location-based services, and they are the focus of this book. Smartphones as locative media raise important questions about how we understand the complicated relationship between the Internet and physical space. This book addresses these questions through an interdisciplinary theoretical framework and a detailed analysis of how various popular mobile applications including Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram, Yelp, and Foursquare use people's location to provide information about their surrounding space. The topics explored in this book are essential reading for anyone interested in how smartphones and location-based services have begun to impact the ways we navigate and engage with the physical world." -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-175) and index.
Series
Digital media and society series.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: From atoms to bits and back again
Chapter 2: Mobilities and the spatial turn
Chapter 3: The infrastructure of locative media
Chapter 4: Wayfinding through mobile interfaces
Chapter 5: Location and social networks
Chapter 6: Writing and archiving space
Chapter 7: Market forces and the shaping of location-based services
Chapter 8: The negotiation of locational privacy
Conclusion: The future of locative media.
Chapter 2: Mobilities and the spatial turn
Chapter 3: The infrastructure of locative media
Chapter 4: Wayfinding through mobile interfaces
Chapter 5: Location and social networks
Chapter 6: Writing and archiving space
Chapter 7: Market forces and the shaping of location-based services
Chapter 8: The negotiation of locational privacy
Conclusion: The future of locative media.