Absent Friends? Smartphones, Mediated Presence, and the Recoupling of Online Social Contact in Everyday Life.
This article contributes to the geographical understanding of how mobile online presence enabled by smartphones transforms human spatial practices; that is, people's everyday routines and experiences in time and space. Contrasting a mainstream discourse concentrating on the autonomy and flexibility...
| Publicado en: | Annals of the American Association of Geographers Vol. 110; no. 1; pp. 166 - 184 |
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