This presentation was given as part of the Technologies of Mobility series of sessions at the AAG meetings in Seattle, 15 April 2011. These sessions were organized by Matt Zook and Rein Ahas.

1. Location-based services, conspicuous mobility, and the location-aware future Matthew W. Wilson Assistant Professor of Geography Ball State University [email_address] 15 April 2011

2. Where is business …

6. What are the discursive and material conditions that produce LBS?

9. “ Government is slow. Here, change happens all the time!”

10. movement + representation + practice Movements 5 by Ereine, Flickr

11. movement + representation + practice Movements 5 by Ereine, Flickr

12. movement + representation + practice Movements 5 by Ereine, Flickr

13. movement + representation + practice Movements 5 by Ereine, Flickr

14. movement + representation + practice Movements 5 by Ereine, Flickr plurality + engagement

15. movement + representation + practice Movements 5 by Ereine, Flickr plurality + engagement potentiality < > inert fixity

16. physical < > digital Buried Technology by Andreas Solberg, Flickr

17. physical < > digital Buried Technology by Andreas Solberg, Flickr code < > space

18. physical < > digital Buried Technology by Andreas Solberg, Flickr code < > space documenting technology + enrolling technology

19. “ Headphones connected to the iPhone, iPhone connected to the Internet, connected to the Google, connected to the government.” (M.I.A., The Message , 2010)

22. 2001 ish European LBS:  bars, food, taxis  SMS FriendFinder US LBS:  AT&T Find Friends

23. 2001 ish European LBS:  bars, food, taxis  SMS FriendFinder US LBS:  AT&T Find Friends 2005… Google Earth Google Maps API Dopplr.com Qype.com Loopt.com Brightkite.com

24. 2001 ish European LBS:  bars, food, taxis  SMS FriendFinder US LBS:  AT&T Find Friends 2005… Google Earth Google Maps API Dopplr.com Qype.com Loopt.com Brightkite.com 10 applications that make the most of location (from Biba 2009) 1 Drive fast, avoid the cops (locations of known speed traps): Trapster 2 Sleep easy, we ’ll wake you (missing your stop on public transit): iNap 3 Play tag, with strangers: JOYity 4 Call a cab, the easy way (location-aware cab services): Cab4Me 5 Scan a barcode, find a deal (local deals): ShopSavy 6 See the world, through Google ’s eyes: Google Earth 7 Train your phone to know its place (location-aware phone ringer settings): Locale 8 Look Up! Be a stellar student (what stars are above): GoSkyWatch 9 Dark Alley? Call for help (location-aware alarm system): SafetyNet 10 Go here when you gotta go (location-aware facility finding): SitOrSquat

25. March 2009  SXSW  foursquare Launch

26. March 2009  SXSW  foursquare Launch

27. March 2009  SXSW  foursquare Launch

28. March 2009  SXSW  foursquare Launch

29. conspicuous mobility check ins  conspicuous consumption check ins  6 million users (end of 2010) check ins  380 million check-ins

30. “ use software to change behavior ” Dennis Crowley 2009 by Dave Pinter, Flickr

31. “ use software to change behavior” Dennis Crowley 2009 by Dave Pinter, Flickr “ by using game mechanics, people feel that they are more interesting, that they are leading more interesting lives ”

32. “ use software to change behavior” Dennis Crowley 2009 by Dave Pinter, Flickr “ by using game mechanics, people feel that they are more interesting, that they are leading more interesting lives ” “ kind of crazy, but crazy in a good and interesting way .”

33. the location-aware future?

34. the location-aware future? LBS  narrowing of spatial interaction

35. the location-aware future? LBS  narrowing of spatial interaction LBS  allow/enable/demand/reward consumptive mobilities

36. the location-aware future? LBS  narrowing of spatial interaction LBS  allow/enable/demand/reward consumptive mobilities LBS  incursion into everyday life (for some)

37. the location-aware future? LBS  narrowing of spatial interaction LBS  allow/enable/demand/reward consumptive mobilities LBS  incursion into everyday life (for some) LBS  privatization of mobility

38. the location-aware future? LBS  narrowing of spatial interaction LBS  allow/enable/demand/reward consumptive mobilities LBS  incursion into everyday life (for some) LBS  privatization of mobility LBS  refiguring of urban interaction

39. “ Mobile is local. ... The entire context for everything that I do is me, my person, my location .” (Agüera y Arcas 2010) Movement 2010 by Gwen Vanhee, Flickr

40. “ Mobile is local. ... The entire context for everything that I do is me, my person, my location.” (Agüera y Arcas 2010) Movement 2010 by Gwen Vanhee, Flickr transactional imagination <> relational spatiality

41. “ Mobile is local. ... The entire context for everything that I do is me, my person, my location.” (Agüera y Arcas 2010) Movement 2010 by Gwen Vanhee, Flickr transactional imagination <> relational spatiality “ You can ’ t hold places still. … We do not feel the disruptions of space, the coming upon difference. On the road map you won ’ t drive off the edge of your known world. In space as I want to imagine it, you just might . ” (Massey 2005, pages 225, 111)

42. Persistent tensions/questions TENSION: Document the entanglements of technology in everyday life while enrolling technologies of mobility to better understand the everyday.

44. Google Map Marker 2010 by [ Mooi ], Flickr