Referenced Studies and Readings

The vibrancy research project and grant for ITP projects was funded by Intel labs, who provided us with the following reading list that revolves around the topic of vibrancy in technology:

Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter (2010)
Steve Shaviro, “Universe of Things”

Paul Dourish, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Context” (2004)

Tim Ingold, “Earth, Sky, Wind and Weather” (2007)

Gilles Deleuze, “Spinoza: Practical Philosophy” (Chapter 2), trans. Robert Hurley

Xinghua Li, “Whispering: the murmur of power in a low-fi world” (2011)

Tim Inglod, “Culture On the Ground: the World Perceived Through the Feet” (2004)







My interest in mobile phones as vibrant devices came from my reading of these articles, which I refer to in the blog entries:

Adriana de Souza e Silva, Theorizing Locative Technologies Through Philosophies of the Virtual, 2011

Adriana de Souza e Silva, Re-Conceptualizing the Mobile Phone – From Telephone to Collective Interfaces, 2006

Dr. Sadie Plant, On the Mobile, Motorola 2002

Mizuko Ito, Introduction: Personal, Portable, Pedestrian, 2005

Jim McGuigan, Toward a Sociology of the Mobile Phone, 2005





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Mitchell, William. (2000). The City of Bits Hypothesis. High Technology and Low Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology. Schon, Donald A.; Sanyal, Bish; Mitchell, William J.(authors). MIT Press

Mitchell, William. (2001). The Teleserviced City. E-Topia: Urban life, Jim–but not as we know it. MIT Press.

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Wellman 2001, 238 Wellman, B. 2001. Physical place and cyberplace: The rise of personalized networking. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25 (2): 227–52. (Cited in Kwan)

Ynag, Boxu. (2007) Social spaces and new media: Some reflections on the modernization process in China. Peking University. Retrieved August 22nd, 2011 from http:// www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042810011808

Yang, Guobin. (2003). The Co-evolution of the internet and civil society in China. University of California. Retrieved August 22nd, 2011 from http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1525/as.2003.43.3.405