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Review

“The authors are clearly enthusiastic about this technology and its possibilities, yet they do address privacy concerns. Particularly interesting is their discussion of the ways in which net locality impacts political engagement and local government, and how location awareness is effecting other cultures.” (Publishers Weekly , 30 May 2011)

Introduction

• Net Locality
• Organizing the Web
• Location Awareness
• Reading the Book
• Chapter 4….Urban spaces are becoming hybridized(de Souza e Silva, 2006)
•  “From cyber to hybrid: mobile technologies as interfaces of hybrid spaces.” [PDF 188Kb]
  Space & Culture, 9 (3), 261-278.
• http://souzaesilva.com/pub.htm
• • de Souza e Silva, A., & Sutko, D. M. (2009). Digital Cityscapes: Mergining digital and urban playspaces. New York: Peter Lang.
• Chapter 5….net localities are transforming community interaction…and civic engagement
• References

Chapter 1: Maps

• Mapping Social Information
• GIS: Converging Maps and Computers
• Web GIS
• Net Locality
• Is the World Too Much With Us?
• References

Chapter 2: Mobile Annotations

• Locating Devices
• Attaching Information to Location
• Tracing and Mapping Locations
• Mobile Annotation
• Location Awareness Goes Mainstream
• Location is Everywhere
• References

Chapter 3: Social Networks and Games

• Digital Connection in Physical Spaces
• Games and Interaction
• The Expansion of Location Awareness
• New Spaces, New Practices
• References

Chapter 4: Urban Spaces

• Good Old Public Spaces
• “Getting Away with Going Away”
• Performance in/Of Public
• Refering  Rockferrer center’s skate link and space and cloud of people watching it, he suggests there’s fluidity of state of people between performing and watching it.
• Transformed Urban Spaces
• References

Chapter 5: Community

• Community and Society
• Neighborhood Connectivity
• Designing Engagement
• Hyperlocal News
• Government 2.0
• The Politics of Net Localities
• References

Chapter 6: Privacy

• The Public Nature of Locaton Data
• The Privatization of Public Spaces
• distinction between private and public is socially constructed and therefore variable and constantly changing.
  
• Power in Net Localities
• References

Chapter 7: Globalization

• Japan
• China
• Considering the Net-Local Future
• References

Chapter 8: Conclusion

• Technological Infrastructures
• Social Infrastructures
• Moving Forward
• References