Last week-end, I was really concentrated on reading articles about mobile phones while in the train : - Grinter, R.E. & Eldridge R., M.A. (2001). "Y do tngrs luv 2 txt msg?" (Why do teenagers love to texte messages". Proceedings of the European CSCW Conference, 16-20 September 2001, Bonn, Germany. ...
Spatial Grounding and mobile phones
I have read an interesting paper "Why people say where they are during mobile phone calls" form Eric Laurier (submitted to Environment and Planning D : Society and Space). The author presents the specific feature of mobile phone conversation : the giving of a geographical formulation as part of an ...
A lire sur l'espace
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Calvinos continuous and hidden cities De Certeaus spatial stories Castells, Manuel. 2001. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory. London: Blackwell. ...
Definitions abour Social Nets
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Social Affordance : "properties of an environment that act as socio-contextual facilitators relevant for the learner's social interactions" Kreijins, Kirschner and Jochems, 2002 Social Presence : "the degree of salience of the other person in the interaction and the cons...
Reading note
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I just finished "City of Bits" (William Mitchell), the reading notes are here ...
Telephone :)
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Bell's very first telephone messsage was : "Mrs Watson, come here, I want to see you". -> Telephone created a new form of contact; it extended and redefined the sphere of interaction and inhabitation. ...
COiffure styley
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Pour aller dans le trend des sapeurs (les blacks qui s'habillent TRES classe facon colonial avec des super costards, des petites cravates larges notamment), voila une affiche des coupes CORRECTES (le sapeur sit ce qui est correct et ce qui n'est pas CORRECT), vu a lyon d...
Skateboarding, Architecture and Space
I am definitely convinced that my early interests (teenagers' stuff) are still linked to my research. or my passion to urban "dérive/drift". I found this reference : Borden, I. (2001) Skateboarding, space and the city: architecture and the body, Berg, New York. I always thought that skateboarding (...
Research on Place and Space
this site presents a tremendously wide bunch of stuff concerning place and space from different approaches. Conferences and journals are presented. ...
Henri Lefebvre : All interact in social spatializations
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE "What exactly is the mode of existence of social relationships? ...The study of space offers an answer according to which he social relations of production have a social existence to the extent that they have a spatial existence; they project themselves into a space, bec...