Time Sellers: A Telecommunication Informal Economy in Urban Colombia
Time is gold. Minutes are money. Literally, in the streets of Bogota and other Colombian cities, you can buy minutes for hundreds of pesos. Selling time is one ...
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Are Twitter bots interacting in Colombian Networked Public Sphere?
During the past nine years we have seen the rapid growth of the Colombian networked public sphere. As Internet connectivity has spread to the country, and more ...
Indie Games Pop-Up Video Arcades
Nurturing aesthetic experimentation and alternative forms of production, distribution and consumption, the indie game culture has grown in the past decade gaini...
Early Geolocative Media Practices
New terms have been created for referring to the information communication technologies and practices that are functionally bound to place. These new tools (har...
The World Wide Web as Social Media
The Internet is the most important socio-technological system that exists in the new networked communication environment. As a “network of networks” (Dutton, 19...
The Meaning of the GPX Format
Navigating with GPS data and mobile devices is an act of recording. As we move in the space of the physical world using smartphones or other kind of GPS-enabled...
Generativity and the Geospatial Web
The Geospatial Web or Geoweb is the system that combines precise geographic information with World Wide Web content (Haklay et al. 2008; Elwood and Leszczynski,...