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Comunicação Locativa em Zonas Bluetooth: O Caso do Totem Educacional
1. Comunicação Locativa em Zonas
Bluetooth: O caso do Totem
Educacional
XI Seminário
Internacional de
Comunicação
Prof. Dr. Macello Medeiros
Universidade Estadual da Bahia
16 à 18 de novembro de 2011
PUCRS – Porto Alegre / Brasil
2. Projeto Totem Educacional
Edital de Cultura Digital da FUNCEB
Totem com interface digital touch screen
Arquivos de Áudio (Narrativas)
Cinco pontos turísticos no Centro Histórico em
Salvador/BA, Pelourinho: Terreiro de Jesus,
Catedral Basílica, Igreja de São Francisco,
Antiga Faculdade de Medicina e Solar Ferrão.
Bluetooth, QR Code and Porta USB
4. Lugar na Comunicação
Espaço X Lugar
Três critérios:
– Tipo de interação
– Meio técnico de transmissão
– Contextos de emissão, recepção e produção
de informação
Comunicação Local, Comunicação Situada,
Comunicação Global e Comunicação Locativa
5. Comunicação Local
Tipo de Interação = Face a Face.
Meio Técnico = Oralidade Primária.
Contextos = Co-presença dos
interlocutores (emissor, receptor e
produtor de informação/conteúdo)
6. Comunicação Situada
Tipo de Interação = Mediada ou Quase-
Interação Mediada.
Meios Técnicos = Protoimpressos e os
Eletro-meios: Rádio e TV.
Contextos = Desvinculados: A formação do
extensio (Heidegger) e a “experiência
espaço- temporal descontínua”
(Thompson).
7. Comunicação Global
Tipo de Interação = Multimediada
(Não consta na tabela de Thompson).
Meios Técnicos = Internet e a
Telefonia Celular, os Bit-Meios.
Contextos = Aumento da “disjunção
espaço-temporal” = “Infinitos
Lugares”.
8. Comunicação Locativa
Tipo de Interação = Interface-Face
Móvel.
Meios Técnicos = Artefatos Móveis
Digitais (AMDs).
Contextos = Co-presença dos
interlocutores.
9. Comunicação Locativa em Zonas
Bluetooth
O “lugar” envia informações para artefatos
móveis digitais dentro dessas zonas.
O conteúdo, na maioria dos casos, é específico
do lugar (cupom de desconto e as narrativas
sobre os pontos turísticos).
Essas condições geram sentido e significado ao
lugar reforçando o sentimento de pertencimento.
Por fim, aumenta o grau de relevância do lugar
na comunicação.
Good Morning. My name is Macello Medeiros,. I’m from Brazil. It’s a honour for me to be here. First of all, I ‘d like to thank Dr. Adria for accecpting my proposal and all organizers of Media Ecology Asssociation 2011. This presentation entitled “Locative Communication: Place as a medium?” is based on a project that I created in 2009 and developed further between october and december 2010. I will also present the concept “locative communication - LC” developed in my doctoral thesis “Place of communication: A study of locative communication in the bluetooth zones”.
The Educacional Totem Project was implemented during March to May 2011 in Pelourinho, Historic Center of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The project consists of available audio files containing narratives about five tourist sites: Terreiro de Jesus, Catedral Basílica, Igreja de São Francisco, Antiga Faculdade de Medicina and Solar Ferrão. These sound narratives are sent to digital mobile devices through three forms: by bluetooth, QR Codes and USB driver. The users can choose which audio narrative (or more than one) they want downloaded from the touch screen digital totem. The purpose is to give the users, e.g. tourists, students, local residents, an experience of imersion surrounding each place. Hearing the sound narratives from a cell phone, the vistors can experience the senses and the meannings of these places. Let’s see a vídeo about the project.
Two minutes.
This project can be considered a materialization of my doctoral thesis concluded in March 2011. The mayor issue discussed in my thesis was about the relationship between communication and place. The object of study was the Bluetooth zones and my hypothesis was that these experiences using Bluetooth could be considered a different form of communication. This is what I call “Locative Communication”. The relationship between Locative Communication and Locative Media is obvious, but what are the differences? In a few words, locative media refers to the technology or the use of devices and locative communication covers the entire process, including technology (in my point of view). Therefore, I´ve established three aspects of analysis: 1) mobile interface interaction, referring to the kind of interaction (based on THOMPSONS´ Theory), 2) the DMDs as technical mediums and 3) the co-presence of producer, transmitter and receptors of information.
Thus, the bluetooth zones gather these three aspects with the use of a cell phone to receive information about a place. This forces users to stay in the zones, in other words, getting the tramsitters and the receptors to interact simultaneously, in same the place and at the same time. Such information may be related to the place like a discount coupon, or in other cases only sending news about specific topics. So, what’s happennig with this relationship between communication and place? These experiences demonstrate that it’s possible to increase the level of relevance to the place. Therefore, It’s happening because the information about the place is being sent to the cell phones which adds meaning, reforcing the sense of belonging. For those visitors in Pelourinho, the experience with bluetooth zones can be compared with a “face to face” interaction, because of the interactive features (With the exception of the use of cell phone to receive the information, in other words, the mobile interface interaction).