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• In Media Res
  Re: Why “Where” Matters: Mobile Media and Urban Experience

  Virtual Gentrification?

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  Emily Goodmann Northwestern University

  Wednesday, February 17, 2010 — 8:18 pm

  This is a really interesting post, Germaine.  Thank you. My addition to this conversation is a bit far afield, but tied to comments regarding identity building via social networking. I'd like to throw it out there and see if it sticks. The consumptio ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Surveying Wired Landscapes: Early Telephone Directories & Mobile Perception

  Hi, Elizabeth.  Thanks so

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  Emily Goodmann Northwestern University

  Tuesday, February 16, 2010 — 5:28 pm

  Hi, Elizabeth.  Thanks so much for your comments.  I hope the following addresses your questions appropriately. Although maps set one dreaming of space, maps are ultimately the product and perspective of the mapmaker. They seem to represent fixed space an ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Surveying Wired Landscapes: Early Telephone Directories & Mobile Perception

  Thanks for your lovely,

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  Emily Goodmann Northwestern University

  Tuesday, February 16, 2010 — 6:47 pm

  Thanks for your lovely, provocative comments, Jocelyn. I am definitely excited by your linking of the directory and its mediation of the modern city to cinematic pedagogy. I wonder if other kinds of visual cultures may have also benefited from and co-cons ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Located in Transit: Music and the Mobile Phone

  Distraction?

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  Emily Goodmann Northwestern University

  Monday, February 15, 2010 — 6:56 pm

  Hi, Ben.  Lovely post.  I am very interested in the places you might take this curation-- particularly with regard to an investigation of what you call "contexts of use."  With regard to the last video in particular, the entanglement of individu ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Connect digital divide

   Thanks, Yi-Fan, for this

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  Emily Goodmann Northwestern University

  Thursday, February 18, 2010 — 7:53 pm

   Thanks, Yi-Fan, for this interesting post today.  I'm wondering: do the mobile devices available to developing nations employ smart phone features (internet-access, etc.) or are telephony and SMS features alone responsible for some of these movement ...