Posted in Conference Blog, literature on Aug 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
In The Cybercities Reader (2004) Stephen Graham – at that time Professor of Urban Technology in Newcastle – bundles a great number of seminal texts about the intersections of digital media technologies and urban life. Some articles were written especially for this reader. Others were previously published. The book departs from the premisse that “[t]he [...]
Posted in Conference Blog, literature on May 8th, 2009 6 Comments »
As part of a new effort of The Mobile City to compile an ever-expanding overview of literature relevant to our themes, I will review this oldie-goldie published in 1960. I particularly assess its enduring relevance for understanding the current relation between mobile & locative media and the city. In this book, Lynch argues that people [...]
Posted in Conference Blog, literature on Feb 24th, 2009 2 Comments »
I just finished reading Marcus Foth’s Handbook of research on Urban Informatics. It’s an edited volume as thick as a fist, packed with essays that when taken altogether give a great overview of this exciting new interdisciplinary field of research and design practices. So what exactly is urban informatics? Roughly said, the field includes a [...]
Posted in Conference Blog, literature on Jan 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Mimi Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Ken Anderson have an interesting chapter in the edited volume by Rich Ling & Scott Campbell (2009) “The reconstruction of space and time: mobile communication practices” which recently came out. The chapter is called “Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The Personalization of Urban Places”. The authors explore how people [...]
Posted in Conference Blog, literature on Sep 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I just read two books – written almost 40 years apart – that signal the same urban problem: cities and towns in the United States are becoming increasingly segregated into monocultural lifestyle enclaves – like flocks to like. This made me wonder what role locative and mobile media might play in this process. In his [...]
Posted in Conference Blog, literature on Jul 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
I just finished reading the highly interesting book The Media City by Scott McQuire. It is a philosophical approach to the role of media in the experience of the city. I found two insights worth sharing here. The first is that McQuire sees media not as a means of representation, but rather as a technology [...]
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