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Summer 2009
Wi Brazil: An Introduction
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.
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Summer 2009
Wireless Internet Access: The Same Old Problem and the City’s New Agenda
By Fabio B. Josgrilberg
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 its roots in an old problem and debate: uneven […]
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Spring 2008
A Door to the Digital Locus:
Walking in the City with a Mobile Phone and Michel de CerteauBy Fabio B. Josgrilberg
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 are organized in a relatively stable form, an “instantaneous configuration of positions”. Such an organization, which can be purely symbolic but also material, is articulated by strategies […]
