Conference Program

DAY 3: SUNDAY, MARCH 18th

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Panel 13 Rm210 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a. m.
Location-based Social Networks
Moderator: Adriana de Souza e Silva (North Carolina State University, USA)

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 Germaine Halegoua (University of Kansas, USA), Alex Leavitt (University of Southern California, USA), Mary Gray (Indiana University, USA)
Jumping for Fun? Negotiating Mobility and the Geopolitics of Foursquare

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 Jordan Frith (North Carolina State University, USA)
Location-based social networks and mobility patterns: An empirical examination of how Foursquare use affects where people go

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 Raz Schwartz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Re-imagining Place Attachment through Location-Based Social Networks

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 Robin Van den Akker (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands)
The orchestration of chance: locative media, digital metis and the theory of occasions
   
Panel 14 Rm201 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a. m
Sustainable Mobilities
Moderator: Ole B. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

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 François Bar, Carmen Gonzalez, Otto Khera, Benjamin Stokes and George Villanueva (University of Southern California, USA)
ParTour: Leveraging the Dual Mobilities of Cellphones and Bicycles for Urban Change

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 Zachary Hall (Old Dominion University, USA)
Hegemony and Location Aware Technologies

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 Nathan Taylor (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
From the Cloud to the Sidewalk: Pedestrianism, Protocol, & the Politics of Walkscore.com

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 Jim Conley (Trent University, Canada)
Beyond the Car in a Climate Change Utopia?
   
Panel 15 Rm215 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a. m
Spatial Knowledge
Moderator: Fernanda Duarte (North Carolina State University, USA)

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 Matthew Wilson (University of Kentucky, USA)
Continuous connectivity, handheld computers, and mobile spatial knowledge

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 Ryan McGrady (North Carolina State University, USA)
Wikipedia Zero and the Encyclopedic Ideal

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 Peter Hemmersam and Jonny Aspen (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway)
Exploring experimental urban mapping tools with social media
   
Coffee Break   10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
 
Panel 16 Rm210 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location-based Mobile Games (case studies)
Moderator: Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University, Canada)

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 Yi-Fan Chen and Alfredo Torres (Old Dominion University, USA)
Zombies Come to Town: Location-Content Awareness Mobile Media Practice on a Community Tagging Game

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 Samuel Tobin (Fitchburg State University, USA)
The game is plenty fun just sitting on a couch

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 Dale Leorke (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Location-based Gaming between Participation and Control in Urban Space

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 Maxwell Foxman (New York University, USA)
Finding Your Place: How Mobile Games and Social Media can Redefine Climate Change and Community
   
Panel 17 Rm201 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Urban Mobilities
Moderator: Rich Ling (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

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 Taien Ng-Chan (Concordia University, Canada)
Performing City Transit

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 Christian Licoppe and Julien Figeac (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Mobilities in action: video-recording the uses of mobile terminals in transport settings

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 Julie Cidell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Intersecting (im)mobilities: transnational trainspace in the suburbs of Chicago

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 Grover Wehman (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Home is Where you Park It
   
Panel 18 Rm215 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Identity, Race and Mobilities
Moderator: Ebenezer Olawuyi (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

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 Armond Towns (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Ride thru the 'Hood: L.A. Gang Tours and the "Production of Racial Immobility"

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 Seth Mulliken (North Carolina State University, USA)
Race and Affect in the Membrane

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 Laurie Phillips (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Understanding Identity within the It Gets Better Project
   
Lunch On site 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
 
Panel 19 Rm201 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Location-based Game Theory
Moderator: Michael Doyle (Laval University, Canada)

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 Samara Mouvery (North Carolina State University, USA)
Alternate Reality Games as Digital Orality: Looking to the Past to Inform the Future

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 Nathan Hulsey (North Carolina State University, USA)
What is Gamification: An analysis of Gamification in the context of Mobilities

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 Isabel Froes (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
LBS in our playful culture
   
Panel 20 Rm210 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
M-learning
Moderator: Gitte Stald (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

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 Katherine Taylor (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Counter-mapping the Neighborhood: Youth Learning with Geospatial Technologies through Urban Spaces

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 Lorn Sheehan, Binod Sundararajan and Sarah Gilbert (Dalhousie University, Canada)
The Texting Tourist: Texting to Learn in Higher Education

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 Sarah Bishop (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Mediated Exchange: Technological Enframing in Study Abroad
   
Panel 21 Rm215 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Borders and Migration
Moderator: Yi-Fan Chen (Old Dominion University, USA)

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 Katy Pearce, Janine Slaker and Nida Ahmad (Georgetown University, USA)
Mobile Internet for Mobile People: Armenian Labor Migrant Families’ Use of Mobile Internet

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 Arul Chib and Rajiv Aricat (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and Rich Ling (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
It's all work and some play: Mobile Phones in the Globalized Migration Context

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 Jackal Tanelorn (Florida International University, USA)
Glass Borders: Manufacturing Im/mobilities at the US Embassy in Mexico City
   
Coffee Break   2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
 
Introductory Remarks Rm201 3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Jason Swarts, Director in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program, North Carolina State University, USA
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Rm201 3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Teri Rueb, University at Buffalo, USA
Locative Media as Generative Displacement
 
Closing Remarks Rm201 4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Adriana de Souza e Silva, Conference Chair, North Carolina State University, USA
 
Break   4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.