Smartphones as locative media /

Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than fifteen 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Frith, Jordan
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; Malden, Massachusetts : Polity Press, 2015.
Series:	Digital media and society series.
Subjects:	Location-based services. Mobile computing. Smartphones. Location-based services > Social aspects. Mobile computing > Social aspects. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: From atoms to bits and back again
Chapter 2: Mobilities and the spatial turn
Chapter 3: The infrastructure of locative media
Chapter 4: Wayfinding through mobile interfaces
Chapter 5: Location and social networks
Chapter 6: Writing and archiving space
Chapter 7: Market forces and the shaping of location-based services
Chapter 8: The negotiation of locational privacy
Conclusion: The future of locative media.