on/off out/in.
Do inhabitants of the new city need physical boundaries to delineate
their privacy? Reading, sms-ing, ipod-ing, vpoding, or using any kind of
mobile device are visible activities that may communicate to others:
“I’m not currently available for any approach or talk”.more
As “symbolic bodyguards” (Lasen 2002b:27), mobile phones also contribute
to the strategy of individuals to defend a minimal private space and the
right to enjoy “civil inattention” [6] within areas densely populated
with - potentially intruding and irritating - unknown strangers (Haddon
2000; Cooper 2000).
http://transition.turbulence.org/uapd/?p=5
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