ABSTRACT
Through everyday practices of moving around cities, people are creating new ways of interacting with others, with places, and with screens while moving, or pausing in movement. Many emerging forms of mobile communication are assisted by new devices and accomplished in motion, leading to practices of “mobile mediality,” understood as a new form of exible and mediated spatiality. New mobile medialities create the conditions for generative cultural and spatial practices that are transforming fundamental dimensions of contemporary urban culture and urban space. They are also potentially presenting a challenge to the existing mobility regimes, which have dealt with movement, power, and control based on twentieth-century technologies. If digital social media and mobile information and communication technologies are enabling people to be on the move, to connect and disconnect, and to enact presence and absence in new ways, how are the day-to-day appropriations of mobile media and geolocational data producing new relations of people to space, community, interaction, and communication? And what implications does this have for the reexive modernization of mobility regimes?
