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January 4, 2008
In the light of the previous post about global roaming and the digital urban I went hunting for some stuff on mobile in a city and urban informatics---and surprise, surprise I found a group on Facebook. This confirms my intuition that Facebook is being used by professionals for networking and to build their social capital. The Facebook blurb, written by Dr Marcus Foth, says:
Driven by curiosity, initiative and interdisciplinary exchange, urban informatics is an emerging cluster of people interested in research and development at the intersection of people, place and technology with a focus on cities, locative media and mobile technology.
Sounds interesting--mobile communications in the city is where I kinda belong in the sense of that being where I am personally situated:feeling the urban impacts of technology, though not the Internet-linked mobile phone or the GPS navigation devices.
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