Technological frames: making sense of information technology in organizations
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) - Special issue on social science perspectives on IS
Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism
Revised Papers from the Second Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities II, Computational and Sociological Approaches
Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City
Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City
The Indian neighbourhood user and designing for mobile internet
ACE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
Proceedings of the Twelfth Australasian Conference on Computing Education - Volume 103
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With the institutionalization and commercialization of locative technical infrastructures such as the global positioning system (GPS), the physical world is increasingly becoming one of ubiquitous locatability as well as connectability. This technical backdrop has proven to be an incubator for location-based applications and services, which in turn are engendering a new set of practices. When these practices involve interactions between people, we might call them 'socio-locative.' My research utilizes interviews and artifact tracking to establish a grounded ethnographic understanding of the motivations behind and impacts of these new socio-locative practices. The study design focuses on two social practices that have locative and non-locative variants: photo sharing on Flickr (with and without geotags) and broadcast microbloging via Jaiku (locative) and Twitter (nonlocative). My expected findings include a greater awareness of a new type of hybrid social space that bonds the virtual and material, as well as insights into how locative metadata acts as an organizing force for social interaction.