System ID:
4
Title:
From Multiuser Environments as (Virtual) Spaces to (Hybrid) Spaces as Multiuser Environments: Nomadic technology devices and hybrid communication places
Author:
Adriana de Souza e Silva
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Author 3:
Degree:
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D)
Year:
2004
Pages:
465
University:
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Supervisor:
Paulo Roberto Gibaldi Vaz
Semail:
Supervisor 2:
Victoria Vesna
Language:
English / Portuguese
Dept:
Communication and Culture
Copyright:
Adriana de Souza e Silva
Lang_author:
Portuguese, English, German, Spanish, French
Url:
http://www.souzaesilva.com
Email:
silvaad@ucla.edu
Keywords:
hybrid spaces, mobile technologies, cell phones, multiuser environments, media arts, pervasive games
Abstract:
This dissertation addresses how mobile communication technologies, especially cellular phones, have an active role in creating new types of communication and social networks in a hybrid space formed by the blurring of borders between physical and digital spaces. It analyzes the transference of social places from cyberspace to hybrid spaces. Nomadic technology devices are responsible for producing new social networks in a
space that interconnects the physical and the virtual due to their users' perpetual mobility. During the last decade, multiuser environments in cyberspace have frequently been regarded as utopian spaces in which users could project their
imagination. Moreover, digital spaces have been considered as essentially disconnected from physical spaces. Nowadays, the constant connection to virtual spaces, allowed by new mobile communication technologies, transforms our social spaces as well as the projection of our imaginary places in urban spaces. This research is based on theoretical and practical studies. First, I analyze the existing literature on cyberspace and mobile technology devices, emphasizing concepts such as virtual, cyberspace, immersion and hybrid. Practical aspects include
analysis of current practices via interviews with artists and scholars and an Internet survey, applied in the United States and in Brazil.
Last update:
Jun 20 2004
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