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 -