ABSTRACT
This chapter offers interventions into the opposition between individualized screen space and community spaces by utilizing the individual space of the mobile phone as the space of community storytelling. Storytelling is important for the production and practice of space because the meaning of a space is typically communicated through the stories attached to those spaces. These stories are often the narratives of a particular place or places, a site or group of locations that are meaningful to a community. Imagining such a meaningful location without a story is impossible; stories, spaces, and communities are intimately tied together. In this chapter, the author explores these ties in mobile media age and how emerging mobile platforms intercede in the long history of community storytelling and site-specific narratives. The reading interface as a social practice that varies greatly from culture to culture and even from individual to individual comes to bear on the practices of the mobile interface.
