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Alex Gekker

Digital Media Researcher and Scholar

Category: Mobility

Waze, Wars, Wanton Disregard for User Privacy

I’ve decided to jot some things down about the recent Israeli Waze-featured controversy. While the main facts have been reported in the

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March 2, 2016March 2, 2016 Alex
Mobility idf, map - world distinction, qualandia, waze, west bank1 Comment on Waze, Wars, Wanton Disregard for User Privacy

From Google to Waze and Back, or Here Comes the Drivenger

Here’s a prolonged deliberation on agency, design, cars and the future rise of drivengers, that will drive/ride automatic cars. It’s an attempt

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December 22, 2014 Alex
Mobility drivenger, google maps, places, self-driving cars, street view, wazeLeave a Comment on From Google to Waze and Back, or Here Comes the Drivenger

What Facebook ‘Nearby Friends’ Means from a Playful Perspective

Well, it means that Facebook is further tapping into What Brian Sutton-Smith calls ‘the rhetoric of play as the imaginary’ – whereas

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April 22, 2014April 22, 2014 Alex
Mobility facebook, friends nearby, location, play, sutton-smithLeave a Comment on What Facebook ‘Nearby Friends’ Means from a Playful Perspective

Post Gozo Aftermath

This is an initial post to solidify some thoughts on the experience (experiment?) with mobile digital playful navigation, which we called the

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October 25, 2013October 25, 2013 Alex
Mobility, Theory derive, Game, Garmin, Gozo, GPS, Interface, open street map, OSM, Situationist, the Situationist international2 Comments on Post Gozo Aftermath

The Sempahore Line brings visions of futuristic mobilities a’ la BBC and juxtaposes them with recent updates on LA auto-traffic system. The

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March 27, 2013March 27, 2013 Alex
Academia, Mobility BBC, cars, congestion, future cars, IoT, traffic, wirelessLeave a Comment on
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