{"id":494,"date":"2010-11-21T00:26:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T23:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/21\/download-my-phd-dissertation-moving-circles\/"},"modified":"2012-02-11T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T11:40:22","slug":"download-my-phd-dissertation-moving-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/21\/download-my-phd-dissertation-moving-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"Download my PhD dissertation “Moving Circles”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tuesday November 16 2010 I successfully defended my PhD dissertation “Moving Circles: mobile media and playful identities”. I am now dr. Michiel de Lange :). A big thanks to my paranymphs: Daan de Lange (left) and Martijn de Waal<\/a> (right).
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You can download “Moving Circles” here<\/a> (pdf, 3.6 MB).<\/p>\n

Versions suitable for e-readers are available as well:<\/p>\n

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Table of Contents<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

List of figures 9<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acknowledgements 11<\/strong><\/p>\n

Introduction. Identity, mobile media, and play 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

i. Identity and the mobile phone: in search of another mediation 13
\nii. Research question, arguments, and aims 23
\niii. Approach and outline 24<\/p>\n

1. Setting the stage: mobile media, narrative identity, and play 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.1 Understanding mobile media technologies 27<\/p>\n

1.1.1 Four dimensions of mobile media 27<\/p>\n

1.1.2 Approaches to the relation between technology and identity 28<\/p>\n

1.1.3 What is \u2018mobile\u2019 about mobile media? 32<\/p>\n

1.2 The storytelling self: narrative identity 35<\/p>\n

1.2.1 Idem and ipse identity 37<\/p>\n

1.2.2 Threefold mimesis 39<\/p>\n

1.2.3 Narrative identity: character and promise 41<\/p>\n

1.3 In search of play 46<\/p>\n

1.3.1 Play and games: the classics 47<\/p>\n

1.3.2 Game, play, playability and playfulness 52<\/p>\n

1.3.3 Communicative play 54<\/p>\n

1.3.4 Play as mediating metaphors: life as play 55<\/p>\n

1.4 Connecting media and play 60<\/p>\n

1.4.1 Media ambiguities 60<\/p>\n

1.4.2 Pleasure, humor, and joking 63<\/p>\n

1.4.3 Media as playful learning spaces 64<\/p>\n

1.5 Conclusion: outline of the play framework 65<\/p>\n

2. Entering the stage: mobile media and modernity in Jakarta 69<\/strong><\/p>\n

2.1 Handphone mania in Indonesia 69<\/p>\n

2.2 The shaping of modernity in urban Jakarta 72<\/p>\n

2.2.1 Jakarta\u2019s metropolitan setting 72<\/p>\n

2.2.2 Jakarta as the center of the modern nation 74<\/p>\n

2.2.3 Unity in diversity? 79<\/p>\n

2.3 From old media to new media: a short media history of Indonesia 82<\/p>\n

2.3.1 From old media… 82<\/p>\n

2.3.2 …To new media 83<\/p>\n

2.3.3 Physical nodes of new media 88<\/p>\n

2.3.4 New media\u2019s new modernity 90<\/p>\n

2.4 The \u2018production\u2019 of the handphone 92<\/p>\n

2.4.1 Market and numbers 93<\/p>\n

2.4.2 Wartel as precursors to mobile telephony 95<\/p>\n

2.4.3 CDMA technology: bridging high-tech and low-tech 96<\/p>\n

2.4.4 The \u2018design\u2019 of the mobile phone 99<\/p>\n

2.5 Conclusion: four play levels 102<\/p>\n

3. Playing the stage: mobile media, mobility and identity in Jakarta 105<\/strong><\/p>\n

3.1 From gengsi to gaul: how to become a proper handphone user 105<\/p>\n

3.1.1 Handphone gengsi 105<\/p>\n

3.1.2 Handphone gaul 109<\/p>\n

3.2 Three handphone mobilities 114<\/p>\n

3.2.1 Corporeal mobility 114<\/p>\n

3.2.2 Socio-economic mobility 117<\/p>\n

3.2.3 Imaginative mobility 119<\/p>\n

3.3 Moving forward: contesting modernities 121<\/p>\n

3.3.1 Conceptualizing place: locality and the global 122<\/p>\n

3.3.2 Spatializing identities 125<\/p>\n

3.3.3 Contesting mobile media modernity 128<\/p>\n

3.3.4 Reconciling differences 133<\/p>\n

3.4 Conclusion: four play types 135<\/p>\n

4. Locating the media: mobile media and urban plays 137<\/strong><\/p>\n

4.1 In search of locative media 137<\/p>\n

4.1.1 Location-based technologies 137<\/p>\n

4.1.2 Locative media practices 140<\/p>\n

4.1.3 Locative media classification 145<\/p>\n

4.2 The city and the media 151<\/p>\n

4.2.1 What is a city? Three approaches 152<\/p>\n

4.2.2 The media city, or the death of the city? 160<\/p>\n

4.2.3 Mobile media as interfaces to hybrid space 163<\/p>\n

4.2.4 Why the city? 166<\/p>\n

4.3 Bliin: A locative playground in hybrid space 167<\/p>\n

4.3.1 A playground for boundary play 167<\/p>\n

4.3.2 Playing with spatiotemporal boundaries 169<\/p>\n

4.3.3 Playing with social boundaries 175<\/p>\n

4.3.4 Playing with boundaries of the self 177<\/p>\n

4.3.5 One more thing: the end of serendipity? 182<\/p>\n

4.4 Conclusion: playing the boundaries 183<\/p>\n

5. Playing the media: the playful qualities of mobile media 185<\/strong><\/p>\n

5.1 Play on the mobile 185<\/p>\n

5.1.1 Casual games 185<\/p>\n

5.1.2 Pervasive games 188<\/p>\n

5.1.3 Mobile play interfaces 188<\/p>\n

5.2 Play with the mobile 189<\/p>\n

5.2.1 Toys 189<\/p>\n

5.2.2 Mobile ag\u00f4n: mastery, competition and pleasure 191<\/p>\n

5.2.3 Mobile alea: fate, chance, and surprise 195<\/p>\n

5.2.4 Mobile mimicry: creativity, pretense, fun; and the conditional order 195<\/p>\n

5.2.5 Mobile ilinx: disorientation, thrill-seeking, and escape 200<\/p>\n

5.3 Play through the mobile 203<\/p>\n

5.3.1 From Kula to mobile gifting 203<\/p>\n

5.3.2 Types of mobile gifts 207<\/p>\n

5.3.3 Differences between old and new gifting 212<\/p>\n

5.4 Play by the mobile 214<\/p>\n

5.4.1 Tyrannies of choice and speed; colonization of private and public life 216<\/p>\n

5.4.2 New power mechanisms: from surveillance to sousveillance, identity profiling 218<\/p>\n

5.4.3 Ontological doubt and ludification: between cynicism and engagement 222<\/p>\n

5.5 Conclusion: conditional play 227<\/p>\n

6. Conclusion. Playing the self: narrative and playful identities 229<\/strong><\/p>\n

6.1 What narrative does not tell: play critique of narrative identity theory 229<\/p>\n

6.1.1 Narrative\u2019s closed circularity and sedentary ethics 229<\/p>\n

6.1.2 Narrative\u2019s simplified view of culture 232<\/p>\n

6.1.3 Narrative\u2019s neglect of spatiality and becoming 234<\/p>\n

6.1.4 From narrative reference and representation to playful conditional performances 236<\/p>\n

6.2 The story, the mobile, and the play: linking narrative and playful identities 242<\/p>\n

6.2.1 Play1: prefiguring life as play and game 244<\/p>\n

6.2.2 Play2: configuring life as play and game 247<\/p>\n

6.2.3 Play3: reconfiguring life as play and game 254<\/p>\n

Literature 259<\/strong><\/p>\n

Replay (Nederlandstalige samenvatting) 279<\/strong><\/p>\n

Curriculum vitae 287<\/strong><\/p>\n

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