DigiPlay: Experience and Consequence of Technologies of Leisure

Mobile Leisure and the Technological Mediascape

Oak Suite, Dept of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH
26th April 2004

Urban Tapestries; Sensing the City and other stories

Katrina Jungnickel
kat@katjungnickel.com
INCITE, University of Surrey

Drawing from Michel de Certeau's Walking in the City (1998) and experience as a core member on Urban Tapestries this paper will explore how people narrate, annotate and explore the city from different perspectives provided by wireless location based application systems. It will look at how emerging technologies are enabling a reconfiguration of relationships to place, communities and activities and will explore these complex shifts in social and cultural behaviours through the experimental multi- disciplinary research approaches of Urban Tapestries.

Bio
Katrina Jungnickel is an independent researcher interested in ubiquitous computing, the sociology of place, mobility and visual research methodology. She is core member of Urban Tapestries and a member of INCITE (Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography) at the University of Surrey. She has an MA in Visual Culture and over eight years commercial media and communications experience in both Sydney and London.

Recent projects include:
Inside Asia - Research Assistant to Dr Genevieve Bell, INTEL on Inside Asia, a research project looking at how culture shapes technology use. Six weeks fieldwork in Australia was the last phase of Dr Bell's major two year, seven country, 20 city, 100 household project. 73urbanjourneys.com - A Research Fellowship in INCITE at the University of Surrey with Dr Nina Wakeford exploring the relationship between mobility and experience of place with reference to the use of digital content. The project resulted in a website and weblog about the No.73 Routemaster bus in London. It looks at how digital content is consumed on the bus as well as uses technology to document the research and gather data. Guest lecturing for B.Sc Sociology, Culture and New Media course. Two lecture/workshop sessions on Managing Creativity within the module of New Media in Practice.

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