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Mobile Devices: Designing Hybrid Body-Spaces

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  • Luisa Paraguai

    (Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, Brazil)

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The paper is concerned with mobile technology and its interventions on the perception of the body and the space, demanding new behavioural codes and evoking other communication patterns. This technology enables users to be always connected, creating other practices of sociability and composing the urban landscape and the body space with digital contexts. Thus, the space occupied by mobile users is no longer physical or virtual, but hybrid. Hybrid spaces are introduced, and theoretical references configure the idea that mobile technology determines specific modes of interaction, emphasising a ritual dimension. Mobile users have started to perform the same body gestures and bounded intimacies in a social context that configure a specific new bodily spatiality. The authors present artistic projects that examine aspects of significant social mobile uses, transforming users bodily states and spatial domains.

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  • Luisa Paraguai, 2010. "Mobile Devices: Designing Hybrid Body-Spaces," International Journal of Advanced Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAPUC), IGI Global, vol. 2(1), pages 39-52, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:japuc0:v:2:y:2010:i:1:p:39-52
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