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1 online resource (339 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; PART I Narrative and Site-Specific Authorship; 1 Site-Specificity, Pervasive Computing, and the Reading Interface; 2 The Interrelationships of Mobile Storytelling: Merging the Physical and the Digital at a National Historic Site; 3 Re-Narrating the City Through the Presentation of Location; PART II Design and Practice; 4 The Affordances and Constraints of Mobile Locative Narratives; 5 Location Is Not Compelling (Until It Is Haunted); 6 Dancing with Twitter: Mobile Narratives Become Physical Scores |
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7 Walking-Talking: Soundsoapes, Flâneurs, and the Creation of Mobile Media NarrativesPART III Space and Mapping; 8 Locative Media in the City: Drawing Maps and Telling Stories; 9 Paths of Movement: Negotiating Spatial Narratives through GPS Tracking; 10 On Common Ground: Here as There; PART IV Mobile Games; 11 The Geocacher as Placemaker: Remapping Reality through Location-Based Mobile Gameplay; 12 Proximity and Alienation: Narratives of City, Self, and Other in the Locative Games of Blast Theory |
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13 Playing Stories on the Worldboard: How Game-Based Storytelling Changes in the World of Mobile Connectivity14 ""I Heard It Faintly Whispering"": Mobile Technology and Nonlocative Transmedia Practices; PART V Narrative Interfaces; 15 Narrative Fiction and Mobile Media after the Text-Message Novel; 16 Stories of the Mobile: Women, Micro-Narratives, and Mobile Novels in Japan; 17 Telling Their Stories through iPad Art: Narratives of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities; PART VI Memory, History, and Community; 18 Mobile Media after 9/11: The September 11 Memorial & Museum App |
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19 Enhancing Museum Narratives: Tales of Things and UCL's Grant Museum20 Mobilizing Cities: Alternative Community Storytelline; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
What happens when stories meet mobile media? In this cutting-edge collection, contributors explore digital storytelling in ways that look beyond the desktop to consider how stories can be told through mobile, locative, and pervasive technologies. This book offers dynamic insights about the new nature of narrative in the age of mobile media, studying digital stories that are site-specific, context-aware, and involve the reader in fascinating ways. Addressing important topics for scholars, students, and designers alike, this collection investigates the crucial questions for this emerging area |
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Print version record |
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Mobile computing -- Social aspects
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Digital media -- Social aspects
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Storytelling.
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Spatial behavior.
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Hypertext literature.
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Telecommunication -- Social aspects.
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Digital media -- Social aspects
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Hypertext literature
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Spatial behavior
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Storytelling
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Telecommunication -- Social aspects
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136169564 |
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1136169563 |
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