The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies

ISBN-13: 9780415641487 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 338 str.

Jason Farman

Opis

What happens when stories meet mobiles? While many studies exist that look at the convergence of narrative and computing technologies, most of these studies consider digital storytelling within a desktop paradigm. Very few offer an analysis of narrative that is site-specific, context-aware, and within a paradigm of pervasive and mobile computing. In this cutting-edge collection, contributors examine the ways in which mobile media alter our conceptions of reading, storytelling, and the dissemination of narratives.

Spis treści

Part I. Narrative and Site-Specific Authorship  1. Site-Specificity, Pervasive Computing, and the Reading Interface Jason Farman  2. The Interrelationships of Mobile Storytelling: Merging the Physical and the Digital at a National Historic Site Brett Oppegaard and Dene Grigar  3. Re-narrating the City and Constructing the Self Through Location Adriana de Souza e Silva and Jordan Frith  Part II. Design and Practice  4. The Affordances and Constraints of Mobile Locative Narratives Jeff Ritchie  5. Location is Not Compelling (Until it is Haunted) Mark Sample  6. Dancing with Twitter: Mobile Narratives Become Physical Scores Susan Kozel  7. Walking-Talking: Soundscapes, Flâneurs, and the Creation of Mobile Media Narratives John Barber  Part III. Space and Mapping  8. Locative Media in the City: Drawing Maps and Telling Stories Didem Ozkul and David Gauntlett  9. Paths of Movement: Negotiating Spatial Narratives Through GSP Tracking Lone Koefoed Hansen  10. On Common Ground: Here as There Paula Levine  Part IV. Mobile Games  11. The Geocacher As Placemaker: Remapping Reality Through Location-Based Mobile Gameplay Ben S. Bunting, Jr.  12. Proximity and Alterity: Narratives of City, Self, and Other in the Locative Games of Blast Theory Rowan Wilken  13. Playing Stories on the Worldboard: How Game-Based Storytelling Changes in the World of Mobile Connectivity Bryan Alexander  14. ‘I Heard It Faintly Whispering’: Non-Locative Transmedia Design and Mobile Technology Marc Ruppel  Part V. Narrative Interfaces  15. Narrative Fiction and Mobile Media After the Text-Message Novel Gerard Goggin and Caroline Hamilton  16. Stories of the Mobile: Women, Micronarratives, and Mobile Novels In Japan Larissa Hjorth  17. Telling Their Stories Through iPad Art: Narratives of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Jennifer Chatsick, Rhonda McEwen, and Anne Zbitnew  Part VI. Memory, History, and Community  18. Mobile Media after 9/11: The September 11 Memorial & Museum App Alberto S. Galindo  19. Enhancing Museum Narratives: Tales of Things and UCL’s Grant Museum Claire Ross, Mark Carnall, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras, and Steven Gray  20. Mobilizing Cities: Alternative Community Storytelling Mark C. Marino

O autorze

Jason Farman is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Department of American Studies and a Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the Digital Cultures and Creativity Program. He is the author of Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media (Routledge, 2012).