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The Urban Space of the Motions and Emotions of Human Bodies in Mobile Networks  

Lee, Hee-Sang (Department of Geography Education, Kyungpook National University)
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Journal of the Korean Geographical Society / v.41, no.5, 2006 , pp. 561-581 More about this Journal
Abstract
Machines, cities and bodies have been evolved together for a long time, and the recent development of information and communication technologies has transformed cities and bodies into new forms. Concerned with the relations between machines, cities and bodies, this paper explores how mobile networks are related with the physical space of the city and the psychological space of the body. The paper is organised into four main sections. First, it provides a theoretical review of the ways in which mobile networks transform urban spaces and human bodies. Secondly, it explains the generation of mobile networks through technological and institutional changes in Korea. Thirdly, it looks at the socio-spatial scales and time-space landscapes of mobile networks in relation to mobile users' motions and practices in their everyday lives. Finally, it attends to the ways in which mobile networks involve the production of paradoxical emotional spaces in relation to mobile users' emotions and desires to be dis/connected with mobile networks.
Keywords
mobile phone; human body; cyborg; social networks; control networks; intelligent/emotional spaces;
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