Issue
Summer 2009
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Summer 2009
Wi Brazil: An Introduction
07.24.09 | Full Article | Comment?
It is a great pleasure to present Wi: Journal of Mobile Media’s third issue. What differentiates it from previous issues is its focus on a single country, namely, Brazil. More importantly, with views, cases and theoretical discussions made by Brazilian researchers and artists.
To have the Brazilian mobile …
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Summer 2009
Mobile Communication: The Brazilian Paradox
07.24.09 | Full Article | Comment?
Cell phones are one of the icons of the post-modern age because they represent many possibilities converged in one single device. They connect people, and at the same time, they are used more generally to organize life through textual, audio and video platforms:
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Summer 2009
Locative Media in Brazil
07.24.09 | Full Article | Comment?By André Lemos
“The internet has already started leaking into the real world”
Ben Russel (1999)
Cyberspace DownloadedParadoxically, mobility media are localization media. It is interesting to note that locative media, which emphasize places, are furnished by mobility technologies that combine devices (laptops, smart phones, PDA and …
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Summer 2009
Risky Approximations Between Site-Specific and Locative Arts
07.24.09 | Full Article | Comment?
I’d like to address the term ‘site’ as a field of semantic migrations, as migrations that occur due to cultural dislocations, linguistic operations, technological influences, poetic licenses or theoretical digressions.
We usually share definitions that could be applied to a number of artistic works that …
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Summer 2009
“We Are As We Move On”: Motoboys Iconomic Evolution in São Paulo
07.24.09 | Full Article | Comment?
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Many a man believes himself to be the master of others who is, no less than they, a slave. How did this change take place? I do not know. What can make it legitimate? … -
Summer 2009
Multifaceted Communication Processes: Which Theories?
07.24.09 | Full Article | Comment?
Image from the Mobile Minded posters exhibition at I Mobilefest 2006
In the South American context, especially in Brazil, the main theories adopted by scholars of communication studies for decades have been the critical theories rooted in the Frankfurt School, … -
Summer 2009
Distributed Surveillance: Video, Monitoring and Mobility in Brazil1
07.24.09 | Full Article | Comment?
Mobility and Distributed Surveillance
Surveillance and mobility have historically maintained close relations: the demarcation of borders and territorial protections, the control of migration and the flow of people, goods, diseases etc. all represent ancient lineages of the intersections between these two processes (Salter & Zureik, …
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Summer 2009
Mobile Technologies as Production Platforms in Brazilian Journalism
07.24.09 | Full Article | Comment?
Mobile Media and Connections
Mobile communication studies have expanded from within various disciplinary areas (in sociology, communication, cyberculture and cultural studies, for example), instigated by they way that practices arising from the emergence of new digital mobile technologies1 and wireless connection…
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Summer 2009
Wireless Internet Access: The Same Old Problem and the City’s New Agenda
07.24.09 | Full Article | Comment?
Over the last few years, the provision of wireless broadband internet access has become part of governmental agendas at all levels, and in many different locations (Middleton & Crow, 2008). This inclusion of yet another ‘new technology’ on the political agenda, however, belies …
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Summer 2009
Clouds of Open Connection: Open Spectrum, Digital Television and Digital Inclusion
07.24.09 | Full Article | Comment?
Low income communities and individuals in Brazil are now grasping the importance of the Internet. The boom in blogs and user-friendly databases worldwide have greatly expanded hypertextual writing and the production of news and information across the web. Even television programs disseminate …
