Issue
Spring 2008
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Spring 2008
Letter from the Editors
04.23.08 | Full Article | Comment?
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Wi: Journal of Mobile Media.
The theme of this first issue, “Pedestrian Traffic,” reaffirms the centrality of mobilities research and practice to the journal at the same time as it alludes to a subtle shift in Wi’s identity this …
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Spring 2008
A Door to the Digital Locus:
Walking in the City with a Mobile Phone and Michel de Certeau04.23.08 | Full Article | Comment?
A city offers us many places wherein life enfolds. We take the idea of place in Michel de Certeau’s sense: a “proper space” wherein its elements …
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Spring 2008
Registering Realities, Parasiting Networks:
An Interview with Antoni Abad04.23.08 | Full Article | Comment?Interview conducted by Kim Sawchuk
Antoni Abad is a Catalan artist whose “canal” projects, broadcast on his website http://www.zexe.net, are intensive short-term collaborations with various diasporic communities. Cab drivers in Mexico City, moto-boys in Sao Paulo, sex-workers …
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Spring 2008
Pedestrian Thoughts:
Waiting in the Street Looking Squatting Filming Taking Time04.23.08 | Full Article | Comment?By Robert Prenovault
The intimate and the impersonal. Ces prises de vue soulignent la tension entre l’intime et l’impersonnel. Elles confrontent l’image de l’espace public à l’apparition soudaine, en gros plan, des pieds des passants. Impersonal, because here …
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Spring 2008
Street Level Conversations:
On the Urban Interventions of Stephan Schulz04.23.08 | Full Article | Comment?By Jennifer Dorner
Our daily commutes are rarely disrupted by the unexpected. Walking to and from work is usually the same, a solemn and private mental space. Sometimes it’s raining and cold and our pace is quickened while other …
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Spring 2008
Spatial Dissonance, Subjective Imagination and Locative Media: An Interview with Paula Levine
04.23.08 | Full Article | Comment?
Interview conducted by Barbara Crow, April 3, 2008 on Skype using Call Recorder.
Paula Levine is an artist, an associate professor at the San Francisco State University in Conceptual/Information Arts and just served a second term as …
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Spring 2008
What Else Do We Lose When We Make People Disappear?
The Passage Oublié Project04.23.08 | Full Article | Comment?By Maroussia Lévesque & Jason Lewis
Figure 1: Touchscreen installed at Pearson AirportWe are all suspects in airports. Post 9-11 fears have generated security measures where individuals are scrutinized, searched and profiled at airports gates. Although these searches …
