Rowan Wilken
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 74561 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rowan Wilken |
| PRENOMES | Rowan |
| SOBRENOME | Wilken |
| ASSINATURA | WILKEN R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3022-0675 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Automotive sensing technologies and the automation of space
While a great deal of critical attention has been focused on the experimental use of automotive sensing technologies within electronic vehicle development, their integration into production cars continues apace. Despite a long history of incorporating vision and other automated sensing systems into production cars, we are yet to fully appreciate how these ‘smart objects’ function and interoperate, how ‘observable’ these systems are (Rieder and Ho…
When Maps Make Decisions
Contemporary maps are creatures of “mobile AI,” the linkage of machine learning with communication and mobility, which we now think of as a significant “next phase” of digital communication. In this article, we address this AI-driven “next phase” by examining the current AI-facilitated developments that are reshaping mobile maps and navigational apps. We consider how AI tools are changing the maps that we have (how maps are made), how we interact…
Revitalising the Concept of the Everyday in Internet Research
In an academic milieu in which a lot of critical attention is dedicated to the data-grabbing, algorithmically biased, and asymmetrical power of massive techno-corporations, this panel explores how a focus on situated ordinary practices can provide us with a more complex, nuanced, and even at times contradictory account of what happens when pervasive digital technologies are experienced in everyday life. It does so via a combination of empirical r…
Integrated mobilities
This article introduces a critical hardware approach to mobile media and communication, focusing on the role of iPhone chipsets. While advanced semiconductors have long been recognized as driving innovation in mobile devices, their specific affordances, arrangements, and politics of composition have received limited critical attention. We begin by examining how hardware, such as integrated circuits and other microelectronics, have factored into m…
Climatic Tantrums and Weathered Memories
Technology transition within secure message delivery (SMD) systems
This article reports on a qualitative interview-based study that set out to explore why fax has come to form such an enduring communication medium, particularly within healthcare contexts. We sought to understand the persistence of the fax within the healthcare system in the Australian state of Victoria, and to examine impediments to the take-up of modern, encrypted health communication – secure message delivery (SMD) – systems. From our study, w…
Assessing early uptake and impacts of 5G mobile services for Australian consumers
The introduction of the fifth generation of mobile standards (5G) has promised faster speeds, greater network capacity and lower latency. 5G has only recently rolled out in many countries, so there is little empirical data on what individual consumers are doing with the speed, capacity and lower latency that 5G promises to offer. To examine early consumer take-up of 5G, we conducted a series of small-group discussions with individual users of 5G …
Shaping infrastructural futures
This article shows how dominant actors inscribe certain ideas, visions, and predictions of infrastructural futures for international mobile telecommunications through standardization. It argues that standard setting is a key avenue that brings different (and sometimes divergent) interests, groups, concerns, and activities into alignment around a certain vision of social and technological progress. To demonstrate this, two key stages in the 5G sta…
QR codes and automated decision-making in the Covid-19 pandemic
In this article, we explore Quick Response (QR) codes (machine-readable optical labels that link to information) and how, after a period of having fallen out of favor, they have been reactivated and have come to underpin COVID-19 automation and contact-tracing efforts. During the pandemic, they were used especially for “safe entry” and other kinds of check-in to locations to facilitate contact tracing. In this context, QR codes facilitate automat…
Introduction
The ongoing tension between the enduring problems that beset the telecommunications sector, and the potential economic and social benefits continually associated with these technologies is the point of departure for our Feature Topic, which reflects on the current state of telecommunications, while also casting a cautious eye forward. The articles in this Feature Topic outline ongoing challenges around connectivity as well as contestations over 5…
Mobile media and telecommunications
This chapter introduces the Australian telecommunications sector, explains technical processes common to the sector and outlines contemporary challenges facing industry and policymakers. In the first section, we introduce Australia’s major telecommunication companies and discuss how the country transitioned from one publicly owned company to the current market structure. Here we also outline consumption trends and other relevant statistics associ…
Sensing technologies, digital inclusion, and disability diversity
This article focuses on uses and experiences of everyday sensory technologies by racially and ethnically diverse persons with disabilites, bringing our research to the junction of critical technology studies, migration studies, and critical disability studies. We draw on a large-scale qualitative project that involves new and second-generation migrants with disabilities from a socio-economically disadvantaged area in Sydney, Australia. Findings s…
Sensors as media and sensor-mediated communication
This special issue examines mediated communication through the rise of sensors. Sensors are increasingly in the phones we carry, in the cars we drive, and throughout the homes and communities in which we live. In this introduction to the special issue, we define sensor-mediated communication (SMC) and argue the embedded, automatic, and datafied nature of sensors belie the glitches and biases in sensor mechanisms, networks, and infrastructure. The…
Digital governance with smart sensors
This study explored sensor-based e-government practices in eight pilot “Future Communities” in Zhejiang Province, China. Adopting the approach of “e-government in everyday practice,” it examines how grid members at the grassroots level make sense of smart sensors and their mediated governance through the parameters of passive response, collaborative human and nonhuman networks, and calculability. In an emerging sensing environment, grid members a…
Sensor work
This article examines the “sensor work” carried out in the development of autonomous vehicles which, without sensor data, would not and arguably still do not, have the capacity to decide on where, and how, to drive. I begin by discussing three aspects of sensor technologies considered to be the foundation for sensor work being carried out in autonomous vehicle settings, namely the distribution, processing, and sourcing of sensor technologies and …
The rise and fall of MapQuest
This article builds an historical account of the rise and fall of US mapping firm MapQuest. It charts the emergence and rapid rise of MapQuest as a popular early provider of online maps – detailing notable innovations, key developments, and successive ownership changes, and the significance of these for MapQuest – and it documents its equally rapid fall. The article draws on political economy of communication (and geographic political economy) ap…
The relational ontology of mobile touchscreens and the body
In this article, we explore the tension between the significance of touch as a vital sensory modality of human experience and how, with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, proximity and (tactile) intimacy with other bodies in urban and domestic spaces becomes fraught with the risk of viral contagion. Informed by haptic media studies, the corporeal or sensory turn in contemporary theory, and phenomenology-informed mobile media studies, we examine th…
Vertical geomediation
Photogrammetry is the science of using photographs to make measurements and derive three-dimensional (3D) data about objects or terrain from two-dimensional (2D) imaging. In this article we view photogrammetry through the lens of geomedia studies, arguing two things. First, we suggest the accumulation and concentration of photogrammetric capabilities, technologies and knowledge, from the First World War onwards can be understood as both part of t…
Placemaking through mobile social media platform Snapchat
In this article, we examine the particular ways that place is configured in and through mobile social media platform Snapchat, and how Snapchat is designed and conceptualized in such a way as to encourage digital placemaking. The position we take in this article is that place is not a thing that is merely recorded through this platform. Rather, place is something that is continually enacted, negotiated and renegotiated across multiple levels of m…
Liminoid media
This article draws on the findings of in-depth interviews with consumers of portable storage devices in Melbourne, Australia, to explore the enduring significance of Universal Serial Bus (USB) portable flash drives. In the article, we develop the concept of ‘liminoid media’ as a way of coming to terms with continued use, and complications of use. Our understanding of this term is inspired by the seminal anthropological writings of Victor Turner (…
Everyday data cultures and USB portable flash drives
In this article, we present a deeper understanding of everyday data cultures in regards to personal information management practices. We draw on a study involving 14 in-depth interviews with users of portable hard drives and USB portable flash drives in Melbourne, Australia, to examine participants’ reflections on their management of personal information on USB portable devices. In examining participant use of these devices, we consider how they …
Everyday Data Cultures
This panel deploys a range of qualitative methodologies to investigate how processes of datafication meet with the subjective experiences of ordinary people, and the practices of everyday life. We draw on the model of 'everyday data cultures' proposed by Burgess (2017) to explore the ways diverse data practices - including the production and circulation of data visualisations, modes of data storage and vernacular engagements with data literacy - …
How Does a Car Learn to See?
In Chapter 6 , we examine a little understood aspect of autonomous vehicle technology: vision capture. While most attention relating to driverless cars has focused on the legal and safety concerns associated with removing a driver’s control, fundamental to the long-term success of autonomous vehicles is the development of visual capture and processing - that is, the processes that are involved in the mapping, sensing and real-time dynamic visual …
Camera Consciousness
In Chapter 2 , we further develop the concept of camera consciousness, positing it as an effective way of accounting for the social changes involved with the increasing autonomy and intelligence of camera technologies and image processing. We begin with the visual anthropology of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, and use the concept of camera consciousness to develop an analytical framework, with the aid of William James, Gilles Deleuze, Jane Be…
Drone Vision
In Chapter 5 , we ask: How does the increasingly ubiquitous aerial drone affect and depend on new forms of distributed, wireless visuality? While a lot of attention has been paid to the trajectory of drone technology as it has arisen out of military contexts and has since invaded urban spaces, we examine the essential role played by drones’ camera technology, visual controls and wireless relations. To understand the implications of drones (both s…
Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps
The ethical and social implications of data mining, algorithmic curation and automation in the context of social media have been of heightened concern for a range of researchers with interests in digital media in recent years, with particular concerns about privacy arising in the context of mobile and locative media. Despite their wide adoption and economic importance, mobile dating apps have received little scholarly attention from this perspect…
Automating Vision
Automating Vision explores the rise of seeing machines through four case studies: facial recognition, drone vision, mobile and locative media and driverless cars. Proposing a conceptual lens of camera consciousness, which is drawn from the early visual anthropology of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, Automating Vision accounts for the growing power and value of camera technologies and digital image processing. Behind the smart camera devices ex…
Places nearby
This article examines the growing importance of Facebook as a location-focused platform. Facebook’s approach has been cautious but deliberate. However, following the strategic acquisitions of location-sharing start-ups Gowalla and Glancee, Facebook has ramped up its location-based services: they launched their Nearby feature in December 2012, and adjusted their application programming interface (API) in early 2013 to enable ‘seamless’ location-sh…
Everyday Data Cultures
This panel deploys a range of qualitative methodologies to investigate how processes of datafication meet with the subjective experiences of ordinary people, and the practices of everyday life. We draw on the model of 'everyday data cultures' proposed by Burgess (2017) to explore the ways diverse data practices - including the production and circulation of data visualisations, modes of data storage and vernacular engagements with data literacy - …
Platform specificity and the politics of location data extraction
The rise of smart phone use, and its convergence with mapping infrastructures and large search and social media corporations, has led to a commensurate rise in the importance of location. While locations are still defined by fixed longitude/latitude coordinates, they now increasingly ‘acquire dynamic meaning as a consequence of the constantly changing location-based information that is attached to them’ becoming ‘a near universal search string fo…
A Community of Strangers? Mobile Media, Art, Tactility and Urban Encounters with the Other
This article is concerned with detailing key instances where mobile media (especially mobile gaming and mobile media art) have been used to make connections with relative and complete strangers. The article is divided into three parts. The first examines two key examples of past experimental design that explicitly explored questions of mobility and difference. The second section details more contemporary experimental engagements with mobile techn…
Online Territories
Review of the book 'Online territories: globalization, mediated practice and social space', edited by Miyase Christensen, Andre Jansson and Christian Christensen, published by Peter Lang, New York, 2011
Strategic regionalization in marketing campaigns
While the economic logic of globalization might impel global marketers to seek the economies of scale and other theoretical advantages of standardization, experience with the realities of linguistic and other cultural differences has obliged them to go some distance towards the ‘glocalization’ of their marketing campaigns. By examining the marketing strategies of Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Procter & Gamble over the last decade or so, with particul…
Covid-19, 5G conspiracies and infrastructural futures
This article examines the emergence of conspiracy theories linking COVID-19 with 5G, with a focus on Australia, the United States and United Kingdom. The article is in two parts. The first details long-standing concerns around mobile technologies and infrastructures before showing how they translate to specific worries about 5G technology. The second shows how these fears have fuelled specific conspiracies connecting 5G with COVID-19, how they ha…
The Haunting Affect of Place in the Discourse of the Virtual
This paper is concerned with tracing how the notion of place circulates and is understood in literature from the 1980s and 1990s on computer-mediated information and communications technologies (or the discourse of the virtual). It provides a brief account of at least two ways that the notion of place circulates in the discourse of the virtual. The first is that these technologies enable ‘new’ spaces that are claimed to be separate from conventio…
The relational ontology of mobile touchscreens and the body
In this article, we explore the tension between the significance of touch as a vital sensory modality of human experience and how, with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, proximity and (tactile) intimacy with other bodies in urban and domestic spaces becomes fraught with the risk of viral contagion. Informed by haptic media studies, the corporeal or sensory turn in contemporary theory, and phenomenology-informed mobile media studies, we examine th…
Entering the Graveyard Shift
This article analyzes the operation and subsequent failure of TiVo in Australia. Drawing on actor-network theory, we unpack the TiVo assemblage throughout our paper, and look at the various human, technical, and institutional interventions that constituted it and constrained its possible futures. This analysis will be conducted by tracing how TiVo attempted to establish itself as a viable social and technical assemblage and assessing its influenc…
QR codes and automated decision-making in the Covid-19 pandemic
In this article, we explore Quick Response (QR) codes (machine-readable optical labels that link to information) and how, after a period of having fallen out of favor, they have been reactivated and have come to underpin COVID-19 automation and contact-tracing efforts. During the pandemic, they were used especially for “safe entry” and other kinds of check-in to locations to facilitate contact tracing. In this context, QR codes facilitate automat…
An exploratory comparative analysis of the use of metaphors in writing on the Internet and mobile phones
Scant attention has been paid to the use of figures of speech in describing mobile telephony and how it is used. While there are isolated cases, as yet there is no study of metaphor use across a larger corpus of mobile phone research. This article addresses this gap by developing a preliminary survey, or mapping, of the use of metaphors and other discursive figures and tropes in the available literature on mobile phones. It does this by using met…
Fantasies of control
This paper examines the US-made television drama series Numb3rs as a key example of what has been called 'post-9/11' television - a form of drama production characterized by a strong reinvestment in scientific rationalism as a way of managing complex and often unseen security threats. Comparing and contrasting Numb3rs with CSI, I argue that the particular reinvestment in scientific rationalism that is manifest in Numb3rs is in some ways similar t…
Shaping infrastructural futures
This article shows how dominant actors inscribe certain ideas, visions, and predictions of infrastructural futures for international mobile telecommunications through standardization. It argues that standard setting is a key avenue that brings different (and sometimes divergent) interests, groups, concerns, and activities into alignment around a certain vision of social and technological progress. To demonstrate this, two key stages in the 5G sta…
Sensors as media and sensor-mediated communication
This special issue examines mediated communication through the rise of sensors. Sensors are increasingly in the phones we carry, in the cars we drive, and throughout the homes and communities in which we live. In this introduction to the special issue, we define sensor-mediated communication (SMC) and argue the embedded, automatic, and datafied nature of sensors belie the glitches and biases in sensor mechanisms, networks, and infrastructure. The…
The rise and fall of MapQuest
This article builds an historical account of the rise and fall of US mapping firm MapQuest. It charts the emergence and rapid rise of MapQuest as a popular early provider of online maps – detailing notable innovations, key developments, and successive ownership changes, and the significance of these for MapQuest – and it documents its equally rapid fall. The article draws on political economy of communication (and geographic political economy) ap…
Vertical geomediation
Photogrammetry is the science of using photographs to make measurements and derive three-dimensional (3D) data about objects or terrain from two-dimensional (2D) imaging. In this article we view photogrammetry through the lens of geomedia studies, arguing two things. First, we suggest the accumulation and concentration of photogrammetric capabilities, technologies and knowledge, from the First World War onwards can be understood as both part of t…
Constructing the check-in
In this article, we explore the social construction of geomedia in relation to mobile photo-taking. The article draws from a study of location-sensitive mobile social networking and search and recommendation service Foursquare in Melbourne and New York City. The study utilized photo elicitation techniques, with each participant asked to provide photographs they associated with their own Foursquare check-ins, accompanied by written responses to qu…
Digital Literacies and the National Broadband Network
This article reports on findings from an ethnographic study of fifteen participant households in North Hobart and Midway Point, Tasmania. Key themes emerging from this research have been gathered and presented here through the metaphor 'digital literacy'. The first half of the article is concerned with developing a critical understanding of what is at stake in the notion, or metaphor, of digital literacy. The second half tests these understanding…
Global Marketing Communications and Strategic Regionalism
This article examines how ideas of global standardization, localization, and regionalization are played out in relation to global marketing. Its aim is to deepen present understanding of global marketing communications and corporate strategy through case studies examining corporate responses to the issues of global standardization, localization, and regionalization. To do this, a research project was developed: an exploratory analysis of the adve…
Sleeping with the Enemy
The advent of internet advertising has changed the basis of the intermediary role which the advertising agency traditionally has occupied between advertisers and the media. This is disintermediation, or 'cutting out the middle man'. The intrinsic and distinctive properties of the internet as a commercial medium, and its interactive character, have given rise to the phenomenon of search advertising, which diminishes the need for an advertising age…
The Haunting Affect of Place in the Discourse of the Virtual
This paper is concerned with tracing how the notion of place circulates and is understood in literature from the 1980s and 1990s on computer-mediated information and communications technologies (or the discourse of the virtual). It provides a brief account of at least two ways that the notion of place circulates in the discourse of the virtual. The first is that these technologies enable ‘new’ spaces that are claimed to be separate from conventio…
Super Size Me
For some time, advertising has been the object of much public debate about eating disorders, such as concerns about its role in fostering body image. More recently, attention has turned towards the degree to which advertising is implicated in what has become a bona fide public health issue in the developed countries, namely obesity - especially amongst children. This is both a local issue, in that it has mobilised concerned parents' groups in the…
Mobilizing Place
A common refrain in much of the critical literature from the 1980s and 1990s has been that electronic media affect dramatically (and negatively) how we experience and understand place. For example
Strategic regionalization in marketing campaigns
While the economic logic of globalization might impel global marketers to seek the economies of scale and other theoretical advantages of standardization, experience with the realities of linguistic and other cultural differences has obliged them to go some distance towards the ‘glocalization’ of their marketing campaigns. By examining the marketing strategies of Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Procter & Gamble over the last decade or so, with particul…
Sleeping with the Enemy
The advent of internet advertising has changed the basis of the intermediary role which the advertising agency traditionally has occupied between advertisers and the media. This is disintermediation, or 'cutting out the middle man'. The intrinsic and distinctive properties of the internet as a commercial medium, and its interactive character, have given rise to the phenomenon of search advertising, which diminishes the need for an advertising age…
Smart living
Tania Lewis, New York, Peter Lang, 2008, 169 pp., $54.95, ISBN 978 0 8204 8677 2 A prominent idea within the European sociological literature of the past few decades, and commonly associated with t
A Community of Strangers? Mobile Media, Art, Tactility and Urban Encounters with the Other
This article is concerned with detailing key instances where mobile media (especially mobile gaming and mobile media art) have been used to make connections with relative and complete strangers. The article is divided into three parts. The first examines two key examples of past experimental design that explicitly explored questions of mobility and difference. The second section details more contemporary experimental engagements with mobile techn…
Global Marketing Communications and Strategic Regionalism
This article examines how ideas of global standardization, localization, and regionalization are played out in relation to global marketing. Its aim is to deepen present understanding of global marketing communications and corporate strategy through case studies examining corporate responses to the issues of global standardization, localization, and regionalization. To do this, a research project was developed: an exploratory analysis of the adve…
Fantasies of control
This paper examines the US-made television drama series Numb3rs as a key example of what has been called 'post-9/11' television - a form of drama production characterized by a strong reinvestment in scientific rationalism as a way of managing complex and often unseen security threats. Comparing and contrasting Numb3rs with CSI, I argue that the particular reinvestment in scientific rationalism that is manifest in Numb3rs is in some ways similar t…
Locative media
In 2010, Google generated global controversy when their Google Street View cars recorded data sourced from unsecured WiFi networks. While, in February of the same year, mobile social networking service Foursquare became embroiled in its own controversy when it was revealed that much of the traffic on their site was appearing on Please Rob Me.com, a website which streams updates from various location-based networks that shows when users check-in t…
The iPhone and Communication
Since its emergence in the late 1970s, the signifi cance of the mobile phone for communication has been widely debated. People have been fascinated about how the mobile phone has changed human communication, what kinds of new communication practices have emerged, and what exactly the cultural implications of this technology might be. Not only has the mobile phone become an extraordinarily ubiquitous and versatile communication device-an emblem of…
Online Territories
Review of the book 'Online territories: globalization, mediated practice and social space', edited by Miyase Christensen, Andre Jansson and Christian Christensen, published by Peter Lang, New York, 2011
An exploratory comparative analysis of the use of metaphors in writing on the Internet and mobile phones
Scant attention has been paid to the use of figures of speech in describing mobile telephony and how it is used. While there are isolated cases, as yet there is no study of metaphor use across a larger corpus of mobile phone research. This article addresses this gap by developing a preliminary survey, or mapping, of the use of metaphors and other discursive figures and tropes in the available literature on mobile phones. It does this by using met…
Digital Literacies and the National Broadband Network
This article reports on findings from an ethnographic study of fifteen participant households in North Hobart and Midway Point, Tasmania. Key themes emerging from this research have been gathered and presented here through the metaphor 'digital literacy'. The first half of the article is concerned with developing a critical understanding of what is at stake in the notion, or metaphor, of digital literacy. The second half tests these understanding…
Entering the Graveyard Shift
This article analyzes the operation and subsequent failure of TiVo in Australia. Drawing on actor-network theory, we unpack the TiVo assemblage throughout our paper, and look at the various human, technical, and institutional interventions that constituted it and constrained its possible futures. This analysis will be conducted by tracing how TiVo attempted to establish itself as a viable social and technical assemblage and assessing its influenc…
Rethinking ‘big data’ as visual knowledge
Informational data, we are told, are proliferating ever more rapidly and with increasing complexity. In an age of ‘big data’ we are seeing a broad reaching, and often uncritical fascination with data visualisation and its potential for knowledge generation. At its extreme this represents a fantasy of knowing, or total knowledge. Nonetheless, for those working in visual anthropology, big data and data visualisation offer significant extensions to …
Places nearby
This article examines the growing importance of Facebook as a location-focused platform. Facebook’s approach has been cautious but deliberate. However, following the strategic acquisitions of location-sharing start-ups Gowalla and Glancee, Facebook has ramped up its location-based services: they launched their Nearby feature in December 2012, and adjusted their application programming interface (API) in early 2013 to enable ‘seamless’ location-sh…
Asynchronous Speeds
This article analyses the substantive problems related to the term 'high-speed broadband' in relation to the implementation of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN). It argues that an understanding of speed in relation to broadband must take into account a complex assemblage of infrastructure networks, communication devices, software, location, user subjectivity and political input. Within this assemblage are varied definitions, discourses…
Peter Carey's Laptop
In 2001, the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne built on its holdings of Australian literary manuscripts by acquiring all the papers, drafts and other items associated with Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel, True History of the Kelly Gang. The centrepiece of this acquisition, and the focus of this article, is Carey's Apple Mac Classic laptop computer. The argument that is developed in this article is that Carey's laptop is a technologi…
Mobile Media, Place, and Location
Social media, small businesses, and the control of information
Much of the discussion regarding privacy and social media has focused on consumers of social media, but social media is also popular among businesses. This article explores the privacy tensions of small business owners using social media to disseminate and gather information to better engage and serve their customers while maintaining customer trust. Drawing on Communication Privacy Management theory [Petronio, S. (2002). Boundaries of privacy: D…
Platform specificity and the politics of location data extraction
The rise of smart phone use, and its convergence with mapping infrastructures and large search and social media corporations, has led to a commensurate rise in the importance of location. While locations are still defined by fixed longitude/latitude coordinates, they now increasingly ‘acquire dynamic meaning as a consequence of the constantly changing location-based information that is attached to them’ becoming ‘a near universal search string fo…
Ethics and Visual Research Methods
This collection presents stories from the field that were gathered from researchers using a breadth of visual methods. Visual methods refer to the use of still or moving images either as forms of data
Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps
The ethical and social implications of data mining, algorithmic curation and automation in the context of social media have been of heightened concern for a range of researchers with interests in digital media in recent years, with particular concerns about privacy arising in the context of mobile and locative media. Despite their wide adoption and economic importance, mobile dating apps have received little scholarly attention from this perspect…
Communication infrastructures and the contest over location positioning
This article builds on renewed critical awareness of the significance of, and need to understand, the material infrastructures that underpin and, importantly, also sustain mobile communication. The focus of this article is on the fluctuating fortunes of one U.S. company: Skyhook Wireless. The company was founded in 2003 with the explicit aim of exploring and developing systems that responded to a very specific communication infrastructure related…
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