The network is not the territory
On capturing mobile media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12656255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Sprenger (0000-0002-5225-8711, Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-96 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461444818787351 |
| OpenAlex | W2884272867 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 21 |
Cellular mobile networks, in which devices constantly relay their location and their movements, are formed by the motion of end devices in relation to the position of radio towers. As a matter of principle, it is this motion that allows the location of devices to be identified within the network. The article argues that the emergence of mobile media based on cellular triangulation has introduced an ontology in which, by technical necessity, the position of every object is constantly registered and objects that do not have an address do not exist. The location and movement of all participants are, at all times, a known technical variable. With Xeros PARC’s “ubiquitous computing” as a reference case, the article scrutinizes how movement triggers the process that registers the locations of mobile phones or smartphones, a development it situates against the cybernetic imagination of determining the location and the movement of an object at the same time
Aesthetics · Cellular network · Geography · Human–computer interaction · Mobile device · Motion (physics · Movement (music · Object (grammar · Position (finance · Process (computing · Relation (database · Relay · Telecommunications · Triangulation · World Wide Web · Computer Science · ICT in Developing Communities · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks · Artificial Intelligence
The Bitmap is the Territory
Cynical technical practice
Pluralising critical technical practice
Algorithmic Surveillance in the Gig Economy
Layers as epistemic and political devices in mobile locative media; the case of iNakba in Israel/Palestine
Everything is old now
Environments of Experimentation and Epistemologies of Surroundings
Where the Action Is
Surveillance in the Digital Enclosure
The Computer for the 21st Century
Obfuscation
From Protest to Surveillance – The Political Rationality of Mobile Media
Dissemination
The Telephonic Revolution of the Digital Image
Discourses on disconnectivity and the right to disconnect
Surveillance and capture
The automatic production of space
Governing the geocoded world
The Geospatialization of Calculative Operations
The Ontology of the Enemy
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |