how technology shapes the ways we move McArthur, John A. 1980- creator author. text bibliography nyu 2016 monographic eng

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xiv, 210 pages ; 22 cm The author investigates the relationship between digital communication and the human use of space, exploring how digital technology shapes personal bodily movement, the interpersonal negotiation of social space, and the navigation of public space and places. He considers daily interactions with spaces and technologies; the components of the study of proxemics, including human distances, territories, and lived experiences in spaces, and the cultural shifts that require consideration of proxemics for a digital society; application of these concepts to the interpersonal distancing of the body in relation to others in the context of digital gathering; how digital technologies change the physical motion of the body; the impact of digital proxemics in communities, cities, and geographic locations; how people, digital technologies, and environments create archives of place that document movements; spaces that were once forbidden but are now accessible through digital technology; spaces created in virtual environments; the role of digital literacies in understanding and contributing to lived experience with and through digital technology; and research in proxemics. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc. Chapter 1. Moving -- Chapter 2. Digitizing proxemics -- Chapter 3. Distancing Ourselves -- Chapter 4. Bodies in motion -- Chapter 5. Finding our way -- Chapter 6. Locating us -- Chapter 8. Developing literacies -- Chapter 9. Researching proxemics. John A. McArthur. Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-201) and index. Mobile computing Mobile computing Social aspects Location-based services Near-field communication QA76.59 .M43 2016 004 9781433131875 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781433131868 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2015036105 DLC 151022 20190319141837.0 18828478 eng