ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the literature concerning with the interactions between hybrid space, mobile practice, and surveillance. The mobile gamification of everyday life is not limited to commercial spaces. Domestic spaces are also being enmeshed into the net of gamified hybridity in the form of smart meters placed in homes and the platform Green Button, which allows application developers to create social applications using real-time data. Scholars have noted that corporations and their associated technological apparatuses have been implicit in the colonization of domestic space and, by extension, the life world since the techno-managerial revolution that occurred during the 1980s. As commercial applications such as Shopkick, Monopoly, Belly, and Waze become more ingrained in urban users everyday lives, must pay special attention to the interactions between designed mobile interfaces and spatial politics. Mobile advertising and location-aware applications are slowly becoming synchronized to the rhythms of urban life.
