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The Semantic Production of Space: Pervasive Computing and the Urban Landscape

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  • Matthew James Kelley

    (Department of Urban Studies, University of Washington Tacoma, 1900 Commerce Street, Tacoma, WA 98402, USA)

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This paper suggests that as pervasive computing technologies have gained purchase in urban space they have also become more implicitly blended with everyday life and more contingent on information that is inductively compiled from Internet-based data services. It is argued that existing theorizations of the technologically mediated production of urban must engage with the increasingly implicit nature of informational transactions as well as the emergent semantic structuring of information. Drawing on examples of ongoing pervasive computing projects, implicit computing procedures are explored in relation to the mediation of everyday urban life. Literatures from computing science and geographical theory are brought into conversation in order to examine the consequences of a convergence between implicit pervasive technologies and the spaces of everyday life.

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  • Matthew James Kelley, 2014. "The Semantic Production of Space: Pervasive Computing and the Urban Landscape," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 46(4), pages 837-851, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:46:y:2014:i:4:p:837-851
    DOI: 10.1068/a46177
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    1. Martin Dodge & Rob Kitchin & Matthew Zook, 2009. "How Does Software Make Space? Exploring Some Geographical Dimensions of Pervasive Computing and Software Studies," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 41(6), pages 1283-1293, June.
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    1. Malecki, Edward J., 2017. "Real people, virtual places, and the spaces in between," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 3-12.

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