Mobile and Ubiquitous Media

Mobile and
Ubiquitous Media

Critical and International
Perspectives

edited by Michael S. Daubs
and Vincent R. Manzerolle

PETER LANG

New York • Bern • Frankfurt • Berlin

Brussels • Vienna • Oxford • Warsaw

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Daubs, Michael S., author | Manzerolle, Vincent, R. author.

Title: Mobile and ubiquitous media: critical and international perspectives /

edited by Michael S. Daubs and Vincent R. Manzerolle.

Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2018.

Series: Digital formations; Vol. 116 | ISSN 1526-3169

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017038366 | ISBN 978-1-4331-4841-5 (hardback: alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4331-4636-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4331-4842-2 (ebook pdf)

ISBN 978-1-4331-4843-9 (epub) | ISBN 978-1-4331-4844-6 (mobi)

Subjects: LCSH: LCSH: Ubiquitous computing—Social aspects. | Social media.

Classification: LCC HM851 .M626 2018 | DDC 303.48/34—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017038366

DOI 10.3726/b11817

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About the editors

Michael S. Daubs (PhD, Western University, Canada) is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

Vincent R. Manzerolle (PhD, Western University, Canada) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He is a co-editor of The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age (Peter Lang, 2014).

About the book

What does the phrase “ubiquitous media” actually mean? Individual definitions are just as varied and ubiquitous as the media to which they refer. As a result, there is to date no large-scale theoretical framework through which we can understand the term. The goal of this volume is to provide a diverse set of critical, theoretical, and international approaches useful to those looking for a more diverse and nuanced understanding of what ubiquitous media means analytically.

In contrast to other existing texts on mobile media, these contributions on mobile media are contextualised within a larger discussion on the nature and history of ubiquitous media. Other sections of this edited volume are dedicated to historical perspectives on ubiquitous media, ubiquitous media and visual culture, the role of ubiquitous media in surveillance, the political economy of ubiquitous media, and the way a ubiquitous media environment affects communities, spaces, and places throughout the world.

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Table of Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction: From Here to Ubiquity

Michael S. Daubs and Vincent R. Manzerolle

Part One: Archaeologies: Histories and Futures of Ubiquitous Media

Chapter one: How We Got Here: The Technologies and Policies Behind Ubiquitous Computing and Ubiquitous Media

Laura Steckman

Chapter two: The Ubiquitous Media War

Tanner Mirrlees

Chapter three: From Contagion and Revealing to Recovery and Healing: Examining the Lifecycle of Ubiquitous Control Through the
Sony/BMG Rootkit

Eric Lehman

Part Two: Mobilities: Mobile Devices, Wearables, and Locative Media

Chapter four: Google Street View and Representational Ubiquity

Aaron Shapiro

Chapter five: Wearable Technology in the Production, Diffusion, and Active Use of Ubiquitous Knowledge

Marco Centorrino and Sebastiano Nucera

Part Three: Visualities: Ubiquitous Media and Visual Culture

Chapter six: Towards a New Visuality of “Mobile Infography”: Examining Contemporary Visual Applications as New Ways of Seeing

Ana Rita Morais←v | vi→

Chapter seven: Entrepreneurial Journalism and Ubiquitous Media: Considerations for Digital Labor

Maggie Reid

Chapter eight: Youth Practices Online and Offline: Ubiquitous Tools and Meaningful Contexts

Pilar Lacasa, Julián de la Fuente, and Katiuska Manzur

Chapter nine: Everywhere and Nowhere, Simultaneously: Theorizing the Ubiquitous, Immaterial, Post-Digital Photograph

Kris Belden-Adams

Part Four: Economies: Critical Political Economy Perspectives

Chapter ten: Ubiquitous Media and Monopolies of Knowledge:
The Approach of Harold Innis

Edward Comor

Chapter eleven: The Mediated Experiences of Our Everyday/Everynight Lives: Notes From a Case Study on Digital Labor

Susan Bryant

Part Five: Localities and Communities: Spaces, Places, and Time

Chapter twelve: Push Narratives: Ubiquitous Mobile News and Participatory Local Media in Himalayan India

Jacqueline H. Fewkes and Abdul Nasir Khan

Chapter thirteen: Towards Journalism Everywhere: The New Opportunities and Challenges of Real-Time News Streams in Finland

Turo Uskali

Part Six: Surveillances: Privacy, Surveillance, and Ubiquitous Media

Chapter fourteen: “Framelessness,” or the Cultural Logic of Big Data

Mark Andrejevic

Chapter fifteen: The Relationship Between Ubiquitous Media and Surveillance of Dissent From the Civil Rights Movement to
Black Lives Matter

Sarah Harney

Chapter sixteen: Ubiquitous Emotion Analytics and How We Feel Today

Susan Currie Sivek

Contributors

Index ←vi | vii→

Figures and Tables

Figures

Figure 8.1. Theoretical model: Main concepts

Figure 8.2. Multiple spaces and times. Scenarios at the workshop

Figure 8.3. Nadia’s first posts on Instagram, 2014 10 04

Figure 8.4. Nadia on Instagram: Changes over time

Figure 8.5. Photography from the mobile phone screen

Figure 8.6. Artistic effects

Figure 8.7. It’s the Hard Knock Life. Nadia on Musical.ly

Figure 9.1. Akihiko (“Aki”) Hoshide, Space Selfie, International Space Station Imagery: ISS032-E-025258, Sept. 5, 2012

Figure 12.1. Anti-corruption campaign discussion, with photo, text, and video commentary (S TV Ladakh 2015. WhatsApp message to author, October 2). The phonetically spelled Urdu comment reads, “It looks like now our community is awakening.”

Figure 12.2. A comment on news that other group members found was not reliable, a WhatsApp screenshot from Al Noor News Ladakh 2015 (Al Noor News Ladakh. 2015. WhatsApp message to author, February 22). ←vii | viii→

Table 11.1. The Survey

Table 16.1. Gathering Emotion Data: User Characteristics Included in Apple Patent←viii | ix→

Acknowledgements

The editors would like to sincerely and wholeheartedly thank the following individuals for their important role in helping to complete this project. Most importantly we would like to thank Mary Savigar, Steve Jones, and Kathryn Harrison for providing the foundational encouragement and support necessary to include this in Digital Formation series as well as Michael Doub and the whole editorial team at Peter Lang who made the process seamless and manageable.

We would also like to thank Marcelo Guarini and the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Windsor for their support. Similarly, we want to acknowledge the additional support provided by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington and particularly thank Sarah Leggott for making that support possible and Philippa Race for her administrative support.