Information as Performance: Mobile Technology, City Streets and the Anti-Tourist

Lingel, Jessa

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Title

Information as Performance: Mobile Technology, City Streets and the Anti-Tourist

Author(s)

Lingel, Jessa

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• urban informatics
• transnationalism
• information practices

Abstract

This paper looks at the extent to which information is performative, meaning that in addition to having a role in gathering, evaluating and/or circulating data, information is also deeply tied to identity work. Drawing on interviews with 26 participants, all of whom had moved to New York City in the last two years, I analyze references to using technology - specifically mobile technology - in order to avoid looking like a tourist. From an urban informatics perspective, this phenomenon provides a means of opening up discussion into the inter-relatedness of people, technology and urban space. From an HIB perspective, my discussion offers a means of addressing the performative nature of information, which is vital to understanding information in the context of everyday life.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47286

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14356

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