Rowan Wilken and Gerard Goggin just published “Mobile Technology and Place”, a book about the interactions between mobile media technologies and issues of place. This book will be crucial to my research project (about how location-based services may affect our way of receiving and exchanging information in public/urban places and how it can enhance the spread of news) and for all those interested in the transformations provoked by location-based services in public and urban places. In this sense, I highlight the chapter five “The Urban Dynamics of Net Localities: How Mobile and Location-Aware Technologies are Transforming Places”, written by the researchers Eric Gordon and Adriana de Souza e Silva. However, it has been hard to get the book. It costs 125$ and it is “temporarily out of stock” on the Amazon.
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Claudia Silva was born in Brazil in 1984. In 2006 she moved to Europe, where she lived most of the time in Lisbon, Portugal, but also in Dublin, Ireland. Currently, she is a Ph.D student of Digital Media, a program integrated in the international UT Austin|Portugal collaboration. As sponsored student by the Portuguese foundation FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia), she is currently doing research at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests are on location-based media, mobile media, social media, new technologies and innovation in journalism. At the University of Texas at Austin, she works with the professor Dr. Joseph Straubhaar and is co-advised by the professor and journalist Rosental Alves. At the New University of Lisbon her advisor is the journalist and professor António Granado.
She has a BA in Social Communication (Journalism) at the Catholic University of Minas Gerais, in Brazil (2005), and received a MA in Journalism from the University of Lisbon, in Portugal (2009). In Brazil, she worked as a local/regional journalist in print journalism. As a reporter for the Newspaper Laboratory of the Catholic University of Minas Gerais she was awarded by the reportage "Selection of trash brings benefits to the city" in a Contest Reporting for Newspapers Laboratory sponsored by the State Foundation for the Environment (FEAM). In Portugal, she has worked as an arts journalist for the most prestigious Portuguese newspaper Público.
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