mobile media

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mobile media

• when media migrates onto the body

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motion, mobility and media

• a brief history of how media has historically
  dealt with motion.
• From Motion Capture - capturing an image of a
  body (photography, cinema) to..
• Networks of mobility - incorporating a body into
  a system (mobile telephony, scanning technologies
  (rfid) air travel, car networks back to early
  telephony and railways)
• Mass communications and Mass transit (the moving
  eye - remote vision but also remote
  relationships, remote senses of place and
  belonging).

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Body- movement- space-

• the issue becomes not just visualising a body in
  motion but facilitating its mobility.
• the body become open to the hard drive of the
  world in new ways.
• case study walking the city..

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Movement from screen to lifefrom
representation to navigation

• The swarming mass is an innumerable collection of
  singularities. Their intertwined paths give shape
  to spaces, they weave them together. ( de
  Certeau,157)
• De Certeau and the city- movement animates space.
  From voyeurs to walkers.
• The city as a myth and also a diagram power
  connection a chaotic mixing of elements. No
  longer just mastery but also interconnection.

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how do changes in media forms effect changes in
social life?
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Where are you? who are you?

• the questions people thought were stupid.
• the behaviours people thought were rude.
• the dividuation of collectives the multitude.
  (no private/public distinction)
• the personalisation of media.
• Cultural attributes of mobile media (phones,
  Ipods and PDAS) Agars eg of pocket watches,
  Lindsay Lohans Blackberry

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real time personal

• Telepresence and intimacyfrom postcard to sms.
  (Hjorth in Fibreculture 6)
• The fluidity of time and space.
• (mobile time- swarm time)
• space as relation of body to network.
• Media landscape gets organised in the same way as
  yr social life and yr business life. It becomes
  a cultural accessories of life.

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What happens to spatial organisation where
everything moves?The shift from functional
stationary boxes (architecture) to functional
mobile devices, vehicles, wearables, and
implants-from hospital to pacemaker-bank to
atm-from gaol (jail) to wearable electronic
ankle tags-from desktop to laptop.Step by
step, the bodies of the formerly tetheredhave
been liberated ( Mitchell47)But into what?
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WE MOVE DATA MOVES
We are no longer content to capture movements in
images as vision and action are now so
aligned.The possibility of our mobility- both
bodies and data are linked to databases and
networks

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the fear of mobile networks

• mobile networks are unlike TV or Radio, they are
  private rather than mass form communication.
• social controversy over early mobile use ( the
  intrusion of private phone space in public
  areas) - use in cinemas, trains etc
• the hyperbole over txting.

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Mobile mass communication

• Technological sublime. Rheingold's the smart
  mob new empowering modes of collective action.
• Overthrow of Estrada (2001),
• Moral Panic (mobile panic). text as insidious
  medium of contagion.
• Cronulla race riots
• both focus on the technology- not on the people
  using it. for more see http//journal.media-cult
  ure.org.au/0603/02-goggin.php

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Sociable media - media dynamics

• text messaging is about a media politics
  (understood in both senses of the phrase the
  politics of media systems, but also the
  inescapable mediation of the political). (Rafael
  in Goggin, 2006)
• In other words, media dynamics.
• Users of technologies shape their development
  through their use. Our devices are shaped by us
  and they in turn shape us. This includes not just
  technical/monetary issues ie the rise of txting
  rather than talking, but also what we believe our
  transmissive power in the participatory forms
  are.

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• Thus unique aspects of life are now a selected
  assignation of variables, numerically represented
  and available for all kinds of substitutions into
  all kinds of areas. Life is now available to the
  database. It has become a potential across a
  series of networked ecologies.

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