ABSTRACT
Mobility and location matter a lot to us. Starting with one of our first spatial explorations, crawling, we learn to make sense of our geographical world on the move. Our spatial and social interactions help us identify not only our being-in-the-world but also places, constructed either as a result of those interactions or designed to host those interactions. We are not only observers in this geographical world but “are ourselves part of it, on the stage with other participants.” 1 We continuously make spatial decisions that involve a continuous movement of our bodies, goods, and information, at all scales. These decisions range from how we get or send things from any given location to another, as well as the means and devices we use for those purposes, to how we deal with unexpected problems on our way, such as a train line delay, a punctured tire, or low reception on our mobile phone. The technologies we use to accomplish different types of mobilities play significant roles in how we make those decisions. Mobile communication technologies (as “miniaturised mobilities” 2 ) make an especially important contribution to how we perceive and understand our spatial environment.
