A community of strangers? mobile media, art, tactility and urban encounters with the other

Mobilities

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 449-468

  Wilken, Rowan ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community; Mobile phones; Mobility; Strangers; Tactile vision; Tactility; The Other

Indexed keywords

ART; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MOBILE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 77957027723     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2010.510330     Document Type: Article

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