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Mobile media -- from mobile phones to smartphones to netbooks -- are transforming our daily lives. We communicate, we locate, we network, we play, and much more using our mobile devices. In Mobile Interface Theory, Jason Farman demonstrates how the worldwide adoption of mobile technologies is causing a reexamination of the core ideas about what it means to live our everyday lives. He argues that mobile media's pervasive computing model, which allows users to connect and interact with the internet while moving across a wide variety of locations, has produced a new sense of self among users -- a new embodied identity that stems from virtual space and material space regularly enhancing, cooperating or disrupting each other. Exploring a range of mobile media practices -- including mobile maps and GPS technologies, location-aware social networks, urban and alternate reality games that use mobile devices, performance art, and storytelling projects -- Farman illustrates how mobile technologies are changing the ways we produce lived, embodied spaces.

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Working deftly at the intersection of poststructuralism and phenomenology, Jason Farman develops the concept of the 'sensory-inscribed' body to discuss embodiment through and within mobile interfaces.a Enlivened with personal anecdotes, his accessible and theoretically savvy writing provides essential guidance to the effects that mobile media are having on important contemporary issues, from ethical quandaries to geospatial reconfigurations of social relationships. -N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of Literature, Duke University This luminously theorized, beautifully written book provides the first comprehensive account of locative mobile media. Jason Farman offers us a distinctive, philosophically attuned perspective on the great cultural technology of our time-tracing the new relations among bodies, space, and culture. -Gerard Goggin, Professor of Media and Communications, University of Sydney Farman's Mobile Interface Theory is the first [book] that focuses completely on theory for mobile media, and, in doing so, provides an excellent foundation for all of us interested in this area of media scholarship. -Dene Grigar, Washington State University Vancouver, in Leonardo Reviews Farman's text represents an ambitiously thoughtful and well-written attempt to understand locative media in terms of embodied experience. -Dan Hassoun, University of Minnesota, in The International Journal of Communication

Working deftly at the intersection of poststructuralism and phenomenology, Jason Farman develops the concept of the 'sensory-inscribed' body to discuss embodiment through and within mobile interfaces.a Enlivened with personal anecdotes, his accessible and theoretically savvy writing provides essential guidance to the effects that mobile media are having on important contemporary issues, from ethical quandaries to geospatial reconfigurations of social relationships. --N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of Literature, Duke University This luminously theorized, beautifully written book provides the first comprehensive account of locative mobile media. Jason Farman offers us a distinctive, philosophically attuned perspective on the great cultural technology of our time--tracing the new relations among bodies, space, and culture. --Gerard Goggin, Professor of Media and Communications, University of Sydney Farman's Mobile Interface Theory is the first [book] that focuses completely on theory for mobile media, and, in doing so, provides an excellent foundation for all of us interested in this area of media scholarship. --Dene Grigar, Washington State University Vancouver, in Leonardo Reviews Farman's text represents an ambitiously thoughtful and well-written attempt to understand locative media in terms of embodied experience. --Dan Hassoun, University of Minnesota, in The International Journal of Communication

Working deftly at the intersection of poststructuralism and phenomenology, Jason Farman develops the concept of the 'sensory-inscribed' body to discuss embodiment through and within mobile interfaces.a Enlivened with personal anecdotes, his accessible and theoretically savvy writing provides essential guidance to the effects that mobile media are having on important contemporary issues, from ethical quandaries to geospatial reconfigurations of social relationships. --N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of Literature, Duke University This luminously theorized, beautifully written book provides the first comprehensive account of locative mobile media. Jason Farman offers us a distinctive, philosophically attuned perspective on the great cultural technology of our time--tracing the new relations among bodies, space, and culture. --Gerard Goggin, Professor of Media and Communications, University of Sydney

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Jason Farman is Director of the Design Cultures & Creativity Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and a faculty member with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. He is also a Faculty Associate with Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.　His books include Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World, Foundations of Mobile Media Studies: Essential Texts on the Formation of a Field, The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies, and Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media. His work has appeared or been cited in The Atlantic,　Atlas Obscura,　Real Life,　and　The Chronicle of Higher Education, the BBC, NPR, ABC News, the Associated Press, the Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, the Denver Post, among others.

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