Smartphones as Locative Media

Smartphones as Locative Media
Author :
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 168
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780745685021
ISBN-13 : 0745685021
Rating : 4/5 (021 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Smartphones as Locative Media by : Jordan Frith

Download or read book Smartphones as Locative Media written by Jordan Frith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than 15 countries, and there are now more than one million mobile applications people can download to their phones. Many of these applications take advantage of smartphones as locative media, which is what allows smartphones to be located in physical space. Applications that take advantage of people’s location are called location-based services, and they are the focus of this book. Smartphones as locative media raise important questions about how we understand the complicated relationship between the Internet and physical space. This book addresses these questions through an interdisciplinary theoretical framework and a detailed analysis of how various popular mobile applications including Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram, Yelp, and Foursquare use people’s location to provide information about their surrounding space. The topics explored in this book are essential reading for anyone interested in how smartphones and location-based services have begun to impact the ways we navigate and engage with the physical world.


Smartphones as Locative Media Related Books

Smartphones as Locative Media
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Jordan Frith
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-06 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than 15 countries, and there are now more than one million mobile applications people can downlo
Locative Media
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Rowan Wilken
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-07 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Not only is locative media one of the fastest growing areas in digital technology, but questions of location and location-awareness are increasingly central to
The Mobile Story
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Jason Farman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-11 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What happens when stories meet mobile media? In this cutting-edge collection, contributors explore digital storytelling in ways that look beyond the desktop to
Mobile Interface Theory
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Jason Farman
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-17 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this updated second edition, Jason Farman offers a ground-breaking look at how location-aware mobile technologies are radically shifting our sense of identit
Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones
Language: en
Pages: 175
Authors: M. Berry
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-16 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of applications, the ways everyday media users and creative professionals represent, experience, and share th