From Cyber to Hybrid: Mobile Technologies as Interfaces of Hybrid Spaces

@article{citeulike:1485480, abstract = {Hybrid spaces arise when virtual communities (chats, multiuser domains, and massively multi-player online role-playing games), previously enacted in what was conceptualized as cyberspace, migrate to physical spaces because of the use of mobile technologies as interfaces. Mobile interfaces such as cell phones allow users to be constantly connected to the Internet while walking through urban spaces. This article defines hybrid spaces in the light of three major shifts in the interaction between mobile technology and spaces. First, it investigates how the use of mobile technologies as connection interfaces blurs the traditional borders between physical and digital spaces. Second, it argues that the shift from static to mobile interfaces brings social networks into physical spaces. Finally, it explores how urban spaces are reconfigured when they become hybrid spaces. For this purpose, hybrid spaces are conceptualized according to three distinct but overlapping trends: hybrid spaces as connected spaces, as mobile spaces, and as social spaces. 10.1177/1206331206289022}, author = {de Souza}, citeulike-article-id = {1485480}, doi = {10.1177/1206331206289022}, journal = {Space and Culture}, keywords = {actor-network-theory}, month = {August}, number = {3}, pages = {261--278}, posted-at = {2008-06-04 23:14:05}, priority = {2}, title = {From Cyber to Hybrid: Mobile Technologies as Interfaces of Hybrid Spaces}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331206289022}, volume = {9}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1485480 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1485480 TI - From Cyber to Hybrid: Mobile Technologies as Interfaces of Hybrid Spaces JF - Space and Culture VL - 9 IS - 3 SP - 261 EP - 278 N2 - Hybrid spaces arise when virtual communities (chats, multiuser domains, and massively multi-player online role-playing games), previously enacted in what was conceptualized as cyberspace, migrate to physical spaces because of the use of mobile technologies as interfaces. Mobile interfaces such as cell phones allow users to be constantly connected to the Internet while walking through urban spaces. This article defines hybrid spaces in the light of three major shifts in the interaction between mobile technology and spaces. First, it investigates how the use of mobile technologies as connection interfaces blurs the traditional borders between physical and digital spaces. Second, it argues that the shift from static to mobile interfaces brings social networks into physical spaces. Finally, it explores how urban spaces are reconfigured when they become hybrid spaces. For this purpose, hybrid spaces are conceptualized according to three distinct but overlapping trends: hybrid spaces as connected spaces, as mobile spaces, and as social spaces. 10.1177/1206331206289022 KW - actor-network-theory AU - de Souza PY - 2006/08/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331206289022 ER -