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Motilities and Skills: Books: changing motilities by How could you be in control in a global mobile world?

? Mobile Public: - Dynamic physical spaces - Mobile lives - From democracy to demo-dynamics - Transformation of our everyday environment - Zero privacy in our everyday life - Design collective agencies Mobile Methods: the Copenhagen Wheel* Crises: Norway 2011?!!** Book: the social life of small urban spaces Meeting points (Direction of) flow of people and occurrence of interaction while they are mobile Pedestrian traffic control Public order: being co-present in a space make you accessible to others The compulsion of proximity: we need co-presence in spaces t know what is happening in our surrounding Book: Matsuda 2005, pg. 30 compulsion to be connected

Book: Bauman 2001, pg. 39 place de la Book: Urry 2007, pg. 275 Book: Dennis & Urry 2009 Involvement of people with politics: research shows that if a set of instructions are set within an activity the users will interact with one another but only until the activity is over and usually the rules are not broken by anyone. So the idea of using technology to keep people more involved in politics and how the city is being managed does not function as stated. *An example of a mobile project for promoting public space is the Copenhagen Wheel. An app which is available to smartphone users and enables them to keep track of the distance the user has travelled with their bike. This app also allows the users to share the data with their friends on social media sites. To some users this might just be simple data collection for their own private use but another point of view could be that such devices and apps are used to collect data and use the users as an intelligence collective device. In other words such apps could allow the government or other private/public organisations to have access to our everyday personal data. (individuals are used as sensors) Book: Levy 1997 Book: Bruns 2008 Book: Jodie Dean 2008; communicative capitalism Book: McGonigal 2006; monitoring political issues

The political figures are viewed as Poppy masters as they control our every decision and move by intelligence collecting devices such as our smartphones. TV: Britain from above Using individual orientation you can find the social spaces , from within and by the movement of others Traditional methods of communication are not enough anymore Book: Law & Urry 2004, pg. 403-4 Scott McNealy: you have zero privacy anyway, GET OVER IT! Cisci CEO

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