Post-Web

The Continuous Geography

of Digital Media

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Post-Web The Continuous Geography of Digital 
Media Author: Herlander Elias
Translation And Proof-Reading: Ondina Pires & Herlander Elias

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Acknowledgments... 8
Introduction... 9
The Post-Web Era

PART I... 30
Into The Screen
1.    Vectoral Logics...    35            
1.1    Grid – A Non-Flat Model...    35        
1.2    Cubic Hexaedric Structures...    44    
1.3    Cyberspace: From Machine-Night to Network-Screen... 51
1.4    Matrix: Horizontal Abyss...    58
        
2.    The Cyberworld...    68            
2.1    World Wide Web: A User’s Freezone...    68
2.2    Mirror-Worlds: Data is The New Soil...    76
2.3    Game Grids And Gamespaces...    80    

PART II... 86
A Revolution in Place: Outside
1.    Content Tourism... 90
1.1    Stepping in The Metaverse... 99
1.2    Google Earth: The World Sim... 104
1.3    Geo-Web: A New Overlay... 109

2.    Spatial Web... 116
2.1 Continuous-Geography... 123
2.2    Space, Place And No-Place... 129
2.3    Post-Geographical Settings... 133
2.4    Exterritorial Features... 140

PART III... 144        
Everybody Becomes Media    
1.    Location Awareness...    151
1.1    Engaging in Performative Environments... 159
1.2    Pedestrian Experience...    168
1.3    Flashdriving is On...    177
    
2.    Post-Web Heroes...    185
2.1    A Share Culture Society...    185
2.2    Non-Stop Mobile Boys...    194
2.3    Meet The Google Girls!...    198

3.    Tracking Villains...    202    
3.1    Stealth Crews: Going Dark... 202
3.2    Grid Gangsters... 205
3.3    Geohackers: Lock-On... 207

Conclusion... 213

Bibliography... 215
1.    Books... 215
1.1    Book Chapters... 223
1.2    Magazines / Articles... 224
1.3    Comics... 224

2.    Online Documents... 226
2.1 Web Sites... 234

Filmography... 236
1.    Movies... 236
2.    Documentary Film... 238

Videography... 239
1.  Videogames... 239

For Marisa, my sister

Ondina Pires, Pedro Guilherme, Ana Rita Diniz, Miguel Matos, David Gorjão Silva, Anabela Gradim, Sónia Alves, Marisa Alexandra Alves Elias, Joaquim Paulo Serra, António Fidalgo, António Fernando Cascais, DCA-UBI, Júlio Semião Elias, Tito Cardoso e Cunha, Sony Computer Entertainment Portugal, Kristy Kang, Catherine Shin, Erik Davis, Rita Alves, Revista MediaXXI, Paulo Ferreira, Paulo Faustino, BOCC, LABCOM, Luís Nogueira, Francisco Merino, Mário Caeiro, José Luís Carvalhosa, Dimitris Charitos, Tara Carrigy, Stephan Powell, Mariana Mota, Mónica Carvalho, Barbara Nati, Sander Veenhof, Zhu Hui, James Charlton, Russel Pensyl, Paula Ellen Ann Blair, Dave Lynch & Jay Needham, David Burns, Kate Richards, ISEA.org.