{"id":901,"date":"2014-11-21T12:35:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T12:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/?p=901"},"modified":"2016-01-06T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:44:24","slug":"comobile-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Comobile Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-21-at-12.42.53.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-907\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-21-at-12.42.53.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-11-21 at 12.42.53\" width=\"547\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-21-at-12.42.53.png 547w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-21-at-12.42.53-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.lancs.ac.uk\/portal\/en\/publications\/comobile-perspectives%28ed20deac-a5c8-4d46-a112-4a677040ea99%29.html\">Comobile Perspectives<\/a> is a&nbsp;chapter in&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcript-verlag.de\/978-3-8376-1947-8\/locative-media\"><em>Locative media: multidisciplinary perspectives on media and locality <\/em><\/a>edited by Regine Buschauer and Katherine S. Willis.<\/p>\n<p>Locative media, such as location based services on mobile phones, have been characterized as a&nbsp;hybrid of digital and local places, in which both proximate and distant social interactions are played out togehter (Willis 2010; Gordon <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span>&nbsp;De Souza e&nbsp;Silva 2011; Farman 2012). This chapter explores a&nbsp;third kind of hybrid \u2014 that of experiencing the aerial perspective of maps at the same time as the embodied eye-level perspective of being on the ground. For instance, the blue dot on an iPhone map that shows where the user is, or a&nbsp;more complex mobile phone application such as <em>Mogi<\/em> that was popular in Japan from 2003\u20132009 where players could see their own location on a&nbsp;map, and those of other players nearby (Licoppe <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span>&nbsp;Inada 2010). In this chapter I&nbsp;use three case studies of flight \u2014 the aironaut in a&nbsp;balloon, the aviator in a&nbsp;light aircraft and the astronaut on a&nbsp;space station \u2014 to explore embodiment, live-ness and co-production while viewing the world from above.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The cover image of the book is from the collaborative work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.satellitebureau.net\/p14.php\">Running Stitch <\/a>(2009) by Hamilton, Southern <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span>&nbsp;St Amand<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/JS_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-902\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/JS_2-281x428.jpg\" alt=\"JS_2\" width=\"281\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/JS_2-281x428.jpg 281w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/JS_2-133x203.jpg 133w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/JS_2.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comobile Perspectives is a&nbsp;chapter in&nbsp; Locative media: multidisciplinary perspectives on media and locality edited by Regine Buschauer and Katherine S. Willis. 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