TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sprenger, Florian
T1  - The network is not the territory: on capturing mobile media
T2  - New media & society
N2  - Cellular mobile networks, in which devices constantly relay their location and their movements, are formed by the motion of end devices in relation to the position of radio towers. As a matter of principle, it is this motion that allows the location of devices to be identified within the network. The article argues that the emergence of mobile media based on cellular triangulation has introduced an ontology in which, by technical necessity, the position of every object is constantly registered and objects that do not have an address do not exist. The location and movement of all participants are, at all times, a known technical variable. With Xeros PARC’s “ubiquitous computing” as a reference case, the article scrutinizes how movement triggers the process that registers the locations of mobile phones or smartphones, a development it situates against the cybernetic imagination of determining the location and the movement of an object at the same time.
KW  - addressability
KW  - capture
KW  - cellular triangulation
KW  - cybernetics
KW  - digital cultures
KW  - german media theory
KW  - media archeology
KW  - mobile media
KW  - Philip Agre
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54269
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-542694
SN  - 1461-7315
SN  - 1461-4448
VL  - 21
IS  - 1
SP  - 77
EP  - 96
PB  - SAGE Publications
CY  - London [u. a.]
ER  -