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Comobility: How Proximity and Distance Travel Together in Locative Media. / Southern, Jen.
In: Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2012, p. 75-91.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Comobility: How Proximity and Distance Travel Together in Locative Media
AU - Southern, Jen
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Mobile phones are becoming increasingly location-aware: they use and share positioning data through networks, across space, and between friends. This paper introduces the term "comobility" to describe an emarging feature of mobile and located communication, and asks how increasingly popular locative applications are changing social and mobile experiences of place and proximity. This new sense of comobility, of being mobile with others at a distance, was produced and made visible in teh collaborative creation-research of the author, in which art practice and social research co-exist in a mobile research methodology. Workshops and a performative walk are analyzed in relation to theories of proximate interaction, to reveal how aspects of face-to-face communication are extended through locative technologies.
AB - Mobile phones are becoming increasingly location-aware: they use and share positioning data through networks, across space, and between friends. This paper introduces the term "comobility" to describe an emarging feature of mobile and located communication, and asks how increasingly popular locative applications are changing social and mobile experiences of place and proximity. This new sense of comobility, of being mobile with others at a distance, was produced and made visible in teh collaborative creation-research of the author, in which art practice and social research co-exist in a mobile research methodology. Workshops and a performative walk are analyzed in relation to theories of proximate interaction, to reveal how aspects of face-to-face communication are extended through locative technologies.
KW - Locative Media
KW - Digital Art
KW - Research Methods
KW - Comobility
M3 - Journal article
VL - 37
SP - 75
EP - 91
JO - Canadian Journal of Communication
JF - Canadian Journal of Communication
SN - 0705-3657
IS - 1
ER -