Credits

Editor's notes, including contact information

A bit of background: This project began in May 2009 because I wanted to know more about mobile storytelling and location-awareness technology and the potential in those for community engagement. Information surprisingly was hard to gather and understand as a whole. Bits and pieces could be picked up in various spots. Yet envisioning those fragments as a larger mosaic was much more difficult. So I started gluing them together, first on my blog, then, when that grew too large, arranging them all here. Much more work needs to be done. I am not sure if I will ever catch up. But I will keep trying.

My goal at first was to survey the field and share what I found here, not to make a comprehensive list of everything ever produced that refers to location-awareness technology or mobile storytelling. What I hope will grow in this place instead is a critical resource for anybody interested in this subject, presenting highlights and context as well as foundational material. I'm particularly interested in applications that take advantage of new technologies to create stories unlike anything we have ever seen before. Of those, I'm focused primarily on awareness of location and context, orientation and time, especially in relation to nonfiction stories. Please let me know about sources or sites or applications that you think are important, and I will add those, too (and give you a credit line). If you find something valuable to take with you, please share it with others. If you like this list, please let people know about it. If you want to take information unique to here, or in this general arrangement, please at least credit the site. Better yet, though, link to it. Thank you!

Sources are provided either through hyperlinks embedded in the text or direct notations. If you would like additional clarification on the roots of any piece of information posted here, send me the question, and I will look that up and add a note or hyperlink to the page to clarify. My goal is to create a fully transparent and explicitly sourced and open and helpful resource in this field that can grow with its development as well as input from others. I realize some of the categories are thin right now, painfully so in spots. I have a lot of information that still needs to be sorted and input. Again, this is just a start. But I hope it is a helpful one.

This mobile world has become so fascinating to me that I have decided to turn the topic into a doctoral dissertation, through Texas Tech University, in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric program.

I live in a suburb of Portland, Ore., called Camas, Wash., and teach at Washington State University Vancouver. I can be reached via email, twitter (@brettoppegaard), through my blog or via various other ways at brettoppegaard.com.

I know more could be here. So please help me build this page through suggestions, critiques and comments. I appreciate the feedback and learning from you, too.

Contributors to date (in alphabetical order): Jeremy Hight, Shawn Kepfer, Kerri Lingo, Will Luers, Bradley Martin, David Schmid, Jessica Stockton and Linda Zandi. Give me a tip I use, and I'll put your name here next.

BrettOppegaard.brandyourself link Version: 1.2 (posted in March 2010; original installment posted in August 2009)