Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World

by Eric Gordon, Adriana de Souza e Silva

The first book to provide an introduction to the new theory of Net Locality and the profound effect on individuals and societies when everything is located or locatable.

Genres: Nonfiction

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good summary of projects which have pushed the envelope on information and place, divided well into understandable themes. The only downside is that, with the speed that things are happening in this field, the examples are bound to seem terribly dated within 2 to 3 years, and in some cases already seem to. I encourage any readers to push past the seeming clunkiness associated with printed screenshots of long-dead UIs; IMHO the ideas will stay good.

[الشناوي محمد جبر · Rating 2 out of 5]

كتاب يتكلم عن أهمية موقعك ومكانك في العصرالحديث، الموقع والمكان بالمفهوم الحرفي للمكان.
الأجهزة الحديثة توضح بدقة موقعك علي الخريطة، والكثير من تطبيقاتا لإنترنت والكثير من الشبكات الاجتماعية للتزواصل تظهر بدقة موقعك، وظهور موقعك علي الخريطة يساهم في تعرف الكثير من الأصدقاء المحيطين بك علي موقعك، بل يمكن لآخر مشترك معك علي نفس الجروب أو مشترك معك في الاعجاب بشيء معين أن يري وجودك قريبا منه، بل قد يقدم لك تلقائيا كصديق مقترح.
باختصار موقعك ومكانك لم يعد مجرد وجود في المكان بل أصبح وجود فقي عالم متشابك متعدد المصالح.
الكتاب طويل وممل لكنه مهم.

[Erhardt Graeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gordon and de Souza e Silva propose "net locality" to describe the nature of communications and society whereby location becomes a more important attribute and catalyst as data is augmented with location information and our primary and secondary channels of communication are mobile allowing us to move through and experience spaces with these new augmentations and filters. Most usefully the book is a cohesive summary of early experiments in games, social networks, and civic interventions that use this location-aware technology to change behavior and test new forms of interaction between people and space. The authors also do a nice job of revisiting place and social performance related social theory from the past century and a half—walking readers through Goffman, Baudrillard, and Debord and how their ideas play out and are in some ways energized in an age of net locality. Whether you agree with their proposed new form of socio-technical configuration "net locality" there is much to learn here if you study or design mobile and location-aware computing.

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

A workman-like summation of recent and contemporary locative media initiatives.

Marred by a jerky wrting style, with very little flow.

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