Net Locality (eBook)

Eric Gordon is Associate Professor of New Media at Emerson College in Boston. He is the author of The Urban Spectator: American Concept-cities from Kodak to Google (2010) and he is the director of the Engagement Game Lab, where he designs and studies digital games that enhance local civic engagement. Adriana de Souza e Silva is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen in the Design, Culture, Mobility, and Communication (DCMC) research group, and Associate Professor of Communication at North Carolina State University. She is the co-editor (with Daniel M. Sutko) of the book Digital Cityscapes: Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces (2009) and affiliated faculty with the NCSU Digital Games Research Center.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1: Maps.

2: Mobile Annotations.

3: Social Networks and Games.

4: Urban Space.

5: Community.

6: Privacy.

7: Globalization.

8 Conclusion.

Index.

"In this regard, the present book is undoubtedly a fine posthumous
support of the work of this visionary

Thinker." (Regional Studies, 1 November 2011)



"Gordon and Souza e Silva posit that human understanding of
location must refer not just to physical spaces but also to
Web-based information linked to these spaces. They consider this
information intrinsic to the cultural and social construction of
space...They explore personal, social, and cultural implications
and consequences of this "networked locality," including impacts on
social interaction, urban living and community, and conceptions of
privacy. Endnotes and references appear at the conclusion of each
chapter. Summing up: Recommended. All levels/libraries." (Choice, 1
October 2011)

"Net Locality is a superb and thought-provoking guide to the
merging of communication, information and location."



Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago

"If anyone still believes in the death of distance, now there is a
definite response. Gordon and de Souza e Silva not only confirm
that place continues to matter, they also dismantle the old
physical/virtual dichotomy and clarify the relationship between
bits and atoms."

Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology

"Services such as Facebook Places, Foursquare, Glympse,
Loopt, WikiMe, GeoGraffiti, and Google Maps and dozens of others
mean that we can attach information to locations, discover new
dimensions to the world around us and engage in social networking
via mobile devices, recalibrating our privacy as we go along.
Gordon and de Souza e Silva's work helps us to understand how
location-based services will change our daily lives."

Rich Ling, IT University of Copenhagen