Chapter 19
Location-aware technologies
Control and privacy in hybrid spaces
Location-aware mobile technologies interface1 people’s relationships to public space by allowing individuals to retrieve place-specific digital information and connect to nearby people depending on their relative location in physical space. The devices’ awareness of physical location is accomplished via triangulation of radio waves, WiFi, or Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Whereas mobile phones were initially studied as technologies that helped people withdraw from their physical surroundings (Geser 2004, Gergen 2002, Puro 2002), it is now evident that one of the major characteristics of mobile (smart) phones is their ability ...
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