Issue
Fall 2006
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Fall 2006
Letter from the Editors
09.16.06 | Full Article | Comment?Welcome to the first issue of Wi, a publication initiative of the Mobile Digital Commons Network. The purpose of this online journal is to highlight and disseminate the on-going research results of two years of collaboration amongst designers, theorists, artists, engineers, software developers as a research network in mobile, wireless …
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Fall 2006
Mapping the Mobile Digital Commons Network
09.16.06 | Full Article | Comment?By Michael Longford
This map visually represents the disparate elements of the MDCN network. The Mobile Digital Commons Network is a national collaborative research network launched a year ago by the Banff New Media Institute and Concordia University. Situated in Banff, Toronto and Montreal the network is made up of …
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Fall 2006
p2P: Cityspeak’s Reconfiguration of Public Media Space
09.16.06 | Full Article | Comment?By Maroussia Lévesque, Lucie Bélanger & Jason Lewis
Introduction
The proliferation of large-scale commercial video screens is reshaping the notion of public space and significantly transforming many urban landscapes (Boeder, 2006). As vectors of consumer culture, these giant displays …
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Fall 2006
The Liminal Magic Circle: Boundaries, Frames, and Participation in Pervasive Mobile Games
09.16.06 | Full Article | Comment?By Alison Harvey
While the emphasis in traditional game theory has been on the rule formations and zone demarcations that distinguish games from play, mobile games tend to deliberately and thoughtfully blur the lines, not just between games and …
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Fall 2006
The Persistence of Surveillance: The Panoptic Potential of Locative Media
09.16.06 | Full Article | Comment?By Andrea Zeffiro
In July 2003, a group of international artists and researchers congregated in Karosta, Latvia on an abandoned Soviet-era military city, united by a common interest in the social and cultural potential of mobile ad-hoc social networks, …
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Fall 2006
Learning From Commercial Mobile Games
09.16.06 | Full Article | Comment?By Janice Leung
While new media analysts insist that mobile games will “replace ringtones, logos and other mobile phone personalisation services as one of the key drivers of the handset market” (Finn, 2005, p. 32; Edwards, 2006), it should …
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Fall 2006
Iterative and Digital: The Use of Blogs and Wikis in Social Science Research
09.16.06 | Full Article | Comment?By Neil Barratt
Alternatively labeled ‘digital public space’ by some, and decried as the ‘extreme sports’ of research by others, blogs, wikis, and other digital tools have become an extensive part of online life, as well as social science …
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Fall 2006
Editor’s Choice: Top Links (Fall 2006)
09.16.06 | Full Article | Comment?
The 4th Screen
Mobility, Vectors: Journal of Culture & Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
Keitai: Mobility, Culture and User Experience
Locative Media Special, Leonardo Electronic Almanac
Vodafone’s Receiver Magazine
