ABSTRACT
Mobile technologies’ impact on the production of space demonstrates how the virtual is always understood as a state of being that is intertwined with a state of becoming. One key feature of mobile media is the ways in which data can be organized and accessed with site-specificity. The mobile map, in its many instantiations, is thus a key example of how representations of space in mobile technologies inform conceptions of—and interactions with—pervasive computing space. The interface of each of these maps is indeed mobile—they are each designed to be portable and to function while moving through space. The fact that Biomapping utilizes mobile technologies as its primary interface is significant in transforming the site of the map into a sensory-inscribed mode of implacement. The use of mobile phones for the mapping process after the earthquake allowed for rapid crowdsourcing of various information.
