Location Technologies in International Context

Description

Location Technologies in International Context offers the first international account of location technologies (in an expanded sense) and brings together a range of contributions on these technologies and their various cultures of use within the Global South. This collection asks: How, within the Global South, do location technologies differ across national markets, geo-linguistic communities and cultural contexts? What are the contrasting or shared meanings and practices associated with location technologies? And what innovative practices and new (or reinvigorated) theory may emerge from attention to the Global South? In exploring these questions, the collection contributes to our understanding of social, cultural, gendered and political relations on a global and local scale. Location Technologies in International Context is ideal for a range of disciplines, including cultural, communication and media studies; anthropology, sociology and geography; new media, Internet and mobile studies; and informatics and development studies. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS List of Figures Acknowledgments List of Contributors 1 The worlds of location technologies 2 Location-based technologies from the walls of rural China 3 Digital repertoires in Australia’s remote Aboriginal communities 4 Location as conspicuous consumption: the making of modern women and consumer culture in south-east Turkey 5 The Berber house or the world leaked: mobile phones, gender switching, and place in Morocco 6 Information superCalle: the social internet of Havana’s Wi-Fi streets 7 Rethinking located technologies: location and practice in “new” and “old” media 8 Uneven topologies of communication: mobiles and transnational location in Samoa 9 Location technologies in extreme environments: the case of King George Island, Antarctica 10 Navigating mobile phone infrastructures on the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic 11 Locating technologies on the ground in post-earthquake Haiti 12 Location technologies and surveillance in insurgent occupied Mali and Nigeria 13 Generic phones in context: the circulation and social practices of mobile devices in Rio de Janeiro 14 Trust and knowing: emerging technologies and mobility in the Global South Index