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Jam My Jam

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

I think this app has some important resonances with this week’s readings, particularly the with regards to Bull’s notion of privatized and personalized listening vs Beer’s contention, “We can no longer think of listening to music as being an individual … Continue reading →

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Soundwalking and a Music-Route

Posted on March 14, 2011 by

As this weeks readings are on Mobile Soundwalking, I wanted to draw attention to Andra McCartney’s blog about a current research project, Soundwalking Interactions.  There’s good info here, articles, publications, and links to other websites and projects related to soundwalking. Also, … Continue reading →

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Social Tapestries/Urban Tapestries – Proboscis

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

This is an interesting set of projects to explore about “public authoring and civil society in the wireless city” or … mobility in urban settings. Proboscis projects are run by Proboscis, an arts-based, non-profit organization in the U.K. You might have … Continue reading →

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Phone Use Disciplining Phone Use

Posted on February 28, 2011 by

This article is a few weeks old now, but I found the various aspects of mobility and media pretty interesting and at least tangentially related to this week’s readings in terms of camera phone use and surveillance: “The Toronto Transit … Continue reading →

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Canadian Centre for Architecture: Journeys exhibition

Posted on February 24, 2011 by

Here are some interesting projects about mobility associated with the CCA’s Journeys exhibition. This is an online (evergreen/legacy) project of stories relating to mobility emerging from the exhibition: the “Infinity Index.” Here is more information about the Journeys exhibition generally … Continue reading →

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The Rise of Generation C

Posted on February 22, 2011 by

I just read this article on “The Rise of Generation C” in strategy + business. Check it out! http://www.strategy-business.com/article/11110?gko=64e54&cid=20110222enews# Pat    

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MPTrain: A Mobile Music and Physiology Based Personal Trainer

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

I found this project interesting because of its focus on the body of the person using a mobile phone and the interaction between the body and the device.  It involves a relatively rare (so far) kind of data collection (physiological), … Continue reading →

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NYC subway system as string instrument

Posted on February 8, 2011 by

Not related to this week’s readings, but I enjoyed this different take on a subway map: http://www.mta.me/ From Alexander Chen’s blog about the project (http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/conductor-mta/): Project summary At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using … Continue reading →

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More on Egypt

Posted on February 3, 2011 by

I mentioned something in class about the use of social media in the recent (and ongoing) protests in Egypt a few weeks ago.  Shortly after that class, most internet access was cut off throughout Egypt, as were cell phones and … Continue reading →

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Strange Maps

Posted on February 2, 2011 by

http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps I stumbled across this blog while looking for the Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World referenced in the Schroeder article (you can find that map here: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs/articles/folder_published/article_base_54) I thought the blog might be of interest in light of last week’s reading … Continue reading →

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