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occasions for members to recognise their co-proximity. Hence the recogni-
tion of mutual proximity is bound to be a common event, the management
of its moral and sequential implications a recurrent concern, and the way this
is done a constitutive feature of the interaction order in location-aware com-
munities (Licoppe and Inada 2010). The kind of analysis we have conducted
here opens out onto a wider research program on proximity as an accom-
plishment, and its implications with respect to encounters and sociality in
various mediated settings.
Acknowledgements
Part of this research has been funded by a research contract with Orange-
Labs and we are grateful to Valérie Beaudouin, Frédérique Legrand and
Dominique ...