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MoBlogs, Sharing Situations, and Lived Life

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Shared Encounters

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This chapter considers shared encounters through blogging in the light of John Urry’s new mobilities paradigm. We review relevant literature on mobile blogging (moblogging) – blogging, pervasive image capture and sharing, moblogging and video blogging – and describe common issues with these digital content sharing practices. We then document some features of how technology affords “reflexive encounters” through the description of a blogging study involving smokers trying to quit, describing important connections between mobilities – physical, object, and communicative mobility. Finally, we present some challenges for new blogging technologies, their relevance to social encounters, and possible future directions through considering the mobile self; the new digital life document; and digital content sharing practices.

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Notes

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    Garfinkel and Wieder (1992) describe this as “locally produced, naturally accountable phenomena, searched for, findable, found, only discoverably the case, consisting in and as “work on the streets.””

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    http://www.locoblog.com/

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    http://www.google.com/maps

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  1. Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, United Kingdom

    Connor Graham

  2. Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia

    Connor Graham

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Graham, C., Rouncefield, M., Satchell, C. (2009). MoBlogs, Sharing Situations, and Lived Life. In: Willis, K., Roussos, G., Chorianopoulos, K., Struppek, M. (eds) Shared Encounters. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-727-1_14

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