Mobile Interface Theory
Embodied Space and Locative Media
1st Edition
Published on 13. January 2012
Book
Hardback
172 pages
978-0-415-87890-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Working deftly at the intersection of poststructuralism and phenomenology, Jason Farman develops the concept of the 'sensory-inscribed' body to discuss embodiment through and within mobile interfaces.? Enlivened with personal anecdotes, his accessible and theoretically savvy writing provides essential guidance to the effects that mobile media are having on important contemporary issues, from ethical quandaries to geospatial reconfigurations of social relationships." -N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of Literature, Duke University"This luminously theorized, beautifully written book provides the first comprehensive account of locative mobile media. Jason Farman offers us a distinctive, philosophically attuned perspective on the great cultural technology of our time-tracing the new relations among bodies, space, and culture." -Gerard Goggin, Professor of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
"Farman's Mobile Interface Theory is the first [book] that focuses completely on theory for mobile media, and, in doing so, provides an excellent foundation for all of us interested in this area of media scholarship." -Dene Grigar, Washington State University Vancouver, in Leonardo Reviews
"Farman's text represents an ambitiously thoughtful and well-written attempt to understand locative media in terms of embodied experience." -Dan Hassoun, University of Minnesota, in The International Journal of Communication
WINNER OF THE 2012 ASSOCIATION OF INTERNET RESEARCHERS BOOK AWARD: "[Mobile Interface Theory] has the potential to inform new scholarship, re-set directions, and remind us that, now, the Internet is not somewhere else, but right here, in our pockets, our minds, our places." -AoIR Book Award Committee
"Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces...would work...well as a foundational text in a course on mobile theories...[and] would likely be of interest to those seeking a richer theoretical understanding of how we experience space and time in an increasingly networked world." - Ryan S. Eanes, University of Oregon, USA
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
16 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
16 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-87890-6 (9780415878906)
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Person
Jason Farman is Director of the Design Cultures & Creativity Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and a faculty member with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. He is also a Faculty Associate with Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.?His books include Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World, Foundations of Mobile Media Studies: Essential Texts on the Formation of a Field, The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies, and Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media. His work has appeared or been cited in The Atlantic,?Atlas Obscura,?Real Life,?and?The Chronicle of Higher Education, the BBC, NPR, ABC News, the Associated Press, the Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, the Denver Post, among others.
Content
Introduction: The Pathways of Locative Media 1. Embodiment and the Mobile Interface 2. Mapping and Representations of Space 3. Locative Interfaces and Social Media 4. The Ethics of Immersion in Locative Games 5. Performances of Asynchronous Time 6. Site-Specific Storytelling and Reading Interfaces 7. Conclusion: Movement/Progress/Obsolescence: On the Politics of Mobility