Location, location-awareness, and location data have all become familiar and increasingly significant parts of our everyday mobile-mediated experiences. Cultural Economies of Locative Media examines the ways in which location-based services, such as GPS-enabled mobile smartphones, are socially, culturally, economically, and politically produced just as much as they are technically designed and manufactured. Rowan Wilken explores the complex interrelationships that mutually define new business models and the economic factors that emerge around, and structure, locative media services. Further, he offers readers insight into the diverse social uses, cultures of consumption, and policy implications of location, providing a detailed, critical account of contemporary location-sensitive mobile data. Cultural Economies of Locative Media delves into the ideas, technologies, contexts, and power relationships that define this scholarship, resulting in a rich portrait of locative media in all of its cultural and economic complexity.

Cultural Economies of Locative Media (Studies in Mobile Communication)

Politics & Social Sciences

Wilken, Rowan

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Location, location-awareness, and location data have all become familiar and increasingly significant parts of our everyday mobile-mediated experiences. Cultural Economies of Locative Media examines the ways in which location-based services, such as GPS-enabled mobile smartphones, aresocially, culturally, economically, and politically produced just as much as they are technically designed and manufactured. Rowan Wilken explores the complex interrelationships that mutually define new business models and the economic factors that emerge around, and structure, locative mediaservices. Further, he offers readers insight into the diverse social uses, cultures of consumption, and policy implications of location, providing a detailed, critical account of contemporary location-sensitive mobile data. Cultural Economies of Locative Media delves into the ideas, technologies,contexts, and power relationships that define this scholarship, resulting in a rich portrait of locative media in all of its cultural and economic complexity.

Digital Domesticity: Media, Materiality, and Home Life

Kennedy, Jenny

Arnold, Michael

Gibbs, Martin

Nansen, Bjorn

Computers & Technology

At the turn of the twenty-first century, typical households were equipped with a landline telephone, a desktop computer connected to a dial-up modem, and a shared television set. Television, radio and newspapers were the dominant mass media. Today, homes are now network hubs for all manner ofdigital technologies, from mobile devices littering lounge rooms to Bluetooth toothbrushes in bathrooms--and tomorrow, these too will be replaced with objects once inconceivable.Tracing the origins of these digital developments, Jenny Kennedy, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Bjorn Nansen, and Rowan Wilken advance media domestication research through an ecology-based approach to the abundance and materiality of media in the home. The book locates digital domesticity throughphases of adoption and dwelling, to management and housekeeping, to obsolescence and disposal. The authors synthesize household interviews, technology tours, remote data collection via mobile applications, and more to offer readers groundbreaking insight into domestic media consumption. Chapters useoriginal case studies to empirically trace the adoption, use, and disposal of technology by individuals and families within their homes. The book unearths social and material accounts of media technologies, offering insight into family negotiations regarding technology usage in such a way that putstechnology in the context of recent developments of digital infrastructure, devices, and software--all of which are now woven into the domestic fabric of the modern household.

Teletechnologies, Place, and Community (Comedia)

Teletechnologies, or technologies of distance, cannot be ignored. Indeed, the present electronic age is said to have wrought profound changes to how we think about and experience who we are, where we are, and how we relate with one another. Place and community have traditionally formed key concepts for thinking about these issues, but what relevance do these concepts now hold for us? In this wide-ranging study, Wilken re-evaluates how ideas of place and community intersect with and help us make sense of a world transformed by information and communication technologies. This interdisciplinary investigation ranges across diverse textual and contextual terrain, exploring approaches from media and communications, architectural history and theory, philosophy, sociology, geography, literature, and urban design. The rich analysis of these myriad texts reveals the complex and at times contradictory ways in which notions of place and community circulate in relation to these technologies of distance. Wilken’s examination underscores both the enduring importance of ideas of place and community in the present age, and the urgent need to continue to engage with, think about and reconfigure these twin ideas.

Networking & Cloud Computing

Routledge

Wi-Fi (Digital Media and Society)

From café culture to home&nbsp;schooling, remote community networks, and smart cities, Wi-Fi is an invisible&nbsp;but fundamental element of contemporary life. Loosely regulated, low-cost, and&nbsp;largely overlooked by researchers, this technology has&nbsp;driven the rise of the smartphone and broadband internet, and is a vital element&nbsp;in the next wave of automation. Thomas, Wilken, and Rennie provide the first comprehensive&nbsp;account of the social and cultural consequences of Wi-Fi, highlighting the ways in which it has changed our homes, communities, and cities. They&nbsp;discuss its origins as an experimental technology, the conflicts generated around its ownership and control, and the&nbsp;ideas and expectations attached to it by technologists, activists, and&nbsp;entrepreneurs. The authors reveal the ways in which Wi-Fi is an inherently&nbsp;social and political technology, animated by conflicting aspirations for local,&nbsp;public, and community control, and defined by private and corporate interests.&nbsp;As this book shows, Wi-Fi has extended and intensified our online lives while also promising a more&nbsp;inclusive internet. Wi-Fi&nbsp;is essential reading for students and scholars of media and&nbsp;communication, as well as anyone who wants a better understanding of this&nbsp;ubiquitous and influential technology.

Thomas,Julian

Rennie, Ellie

Polity

Everyday Data Cultures

About the Author\nJean Burgess is Professor of Digital Media at Queensland University of Technology. 
Kath Albury is Professor of Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology. 
Anthony McCosker is Professor of Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology. 
Rowan Wilken is Principal Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.\nThe AI revolution can seem powerful and unstoppable, extracting data from every aspect of our lives and subjecting us to unprecedented surveillance and control. But at ground level, even the most advanced ‘smart’ technologies are not as all-powerful as either the tech companies or their critics would have us believe.\nFrom gig worker activism to wellness tracking with sex toys and TikTokers' manipulation of the algorithm, this book shows how ordinary people are negotiating the datafication of society. The book establishes a new theoretical framework for understanding everyday experiences of data and automation, and offers guidance on the ethical responsibilities we share as we learn to live together with data-driven machines.\nEveryday Data Cultures is essential reading for students and researchers in digital media and communication, as well as for anyone interested in the role of data and AI in society.

Burgess, Jean

Albury, Kath

McCosker, Anthony

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