Mobile interface theory : embodied space and locative media / Jason Farman.

By:

Farman, Jason

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2012.Description: xii, 168 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780415878913 (pbk.)
0415878918 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

004 FAR

Summary: "Mobile media -- from mobile phones to smartphones to netbooks -- are transforming our daily lives. We communicate, we locate, we network, we play, and much more through our mobile devices. In Mobile Interface Theory, Jason Farman demonstrates how the worldwide adoption of mobile technologies is causing a reexamination of the core ideas about what it means to live our everyday lives. He argues that mobile media's pervasive computing model, which allows users to connect and interact with the internet while moving across a wide variety of locations, produces a new sense of self -- a new embodied identity that stems from virtual space and material space regularly enhancing, cooperating or disrupting each other. Exploring a range of mobile media practices, including mobile maps and GPS technologies, location-aware social networks, urban and alternate reality games that use mobile devices, performance art, and storytelling projects, Farman illustrates how mobile technologies are changing the ways we produce lived, embodied spaces"-- Provided by publisher.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	004 FAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100659656

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this updated second edition, Jason Farman offers a ground-breaking look at how location-aware mobile technologies are radically shifting our sense of identity, community, and place-making practices.

Mobile Interface Theory is a foundational book in mobile media studies, with the first edition winning the Book of the Year Award from the Association of Internet Researchers. It explores a range of mobile media practices from interface design to maps, AR/VR, mobile games, performances that use mobile devices and mobile storytelling projects. Throughout, Farman provides readers with a rich theoretical framework to understand the ever-transforming landscape of mobile media and how they shape our bodily practices in the spaces we move through. This fully updated second edition features updated examples throughout reflecting the shifts in mobile technology.

This is the ideal text for those studying mobile media, social media, digital media, and mobile storytelling.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-160) and index.

"Mobile media -- from mobile phones to smartphones to netbooks -- are transforming our daily lives. We communicate, we locate, we network, we play, and much more through our mobile devices. In Mobile Interface Theory, Jason Farman demonstrates how the worldwide adoption of mobile technologies is causing a reexamination of the core ideas about what it means to live our everyday lives. He argues that mobile media's pervasive computing model, which allows users to connect and interact with the internet while moving across a wide variety of locations, produces a new sense of self -- a new embodied identity that stems from virtual space and material space regularly enhancing, cooperating or disrupting each other. Exploring a range of mobile media practices, including mobile maps and GPS technologies, location-aware social networks, urban and alternate reality games that use mobile devices, performance art, and storytelling projects, Farman illustrates how mobile technologies are changing the ways we produce lived, embodied spaces"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of Figures (p. ix)
Acknowledgments (p. xi)
Introduction: The Pathways of Locative Media (p. 1)
1 Embodiment and the Mobile Interface (p. 16)
2 Mapping and Representations of Space (p. 35)
3 Locative Interfaces and Social Media (p. 56)
4 The Ethics of Immersion in Locative Games (p. 76)
5 Performances of Asynchronous Time (p. 95)
6 Site-Specific Storytelling and Reading Interfaces (p. 113)
Conclusion: Movement/Progress/Obsolescence: On the Politics of Mobility (p. 131)
Notes (p. 142)
Bibliography (p. 154)
Index (p. 161)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jason Farman is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Department of American Studies and a Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Digital Cultures and Creativity Program. He received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies and Digital Media from the University of California, Los Angeles. Farman's research focuses on embodied space in the digital age, including studies of mobile media, mapping technologies, videogames, digital storytelling, social media digital performance art, and surveillance.