%0 Journal Article
%T Location-aware mobile technologies: historical, social and spatial approaches
%A Adriana de Souza e Silva
%J Verso e Reverso
%D 2013
%I Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
%R 10.4013/ver.2013.27.64.03
%X With the popularization of smartphones, location-based services are increasingly part of everyday live. People use their cell phones to find nearby restaurants, friends in the vicinity, and track their children. Although location-based services have received sparse attention from mobile communications cholars to date, the ability of locating people and things with one¡¯s cell phone is not new. Since the removal of GPS signal degradation in 2000, artists and researchers have been exploring how location-awareness influences mobility, spatiality and sociability. Besides exploring the historical antecedents of today¡¯s location-based services, this paper focuses on the main social issues that emerge when location-aware technologies leave the strict domain of art and research and become part of everyday life: locational privacy, sociability, and spatiality. Finally, this paper addresses two main topics that future mobile communication research that focus on location-awareness should take into consideration: a shift in the meaning of location, and the adoption and appropriation of location-aware technologies in the global south.
%K mobile technologies
%K locative media
%K locational privacy
%K sociability
%K spatiality
%K surveillance
%K global south
%K location.
%U http://www.unisinos.br/_diversos/revistas/ojs/index.php/versoereverso/article/view/ver.2013.27.64.03/1396