摘要：This thesis investigates the design process of mobile-based narratives to verify whether the affordances and constraints of the supporting medium have contributed to shaping specific discursive strategies and particular participation modes. Have properties such as connectivity, location-awareness, portability, and multimodality enabled narrative formats that gained force by contesting traditional patterns and classic narrativity notions? The unveiling of the research inquiry happens through a bricolage of methods in a dialogue between artistic and scientific domains. The study of the phenomenon comprises three correlated stages. The first is a theoretical literature review that investigates the artistic use of locative and mobile media, and their influence in the basic principles governing narratives. The second is a case study of Blast Theory artistic practice grounded in an ethnographic approach with site-visit, and resulting in a qualitative analysis of four of their projects. The third moment consists of applied-theory activities that lead to the collaborative development of a geolocated narrative which serves to evaluate participant's experience.
其他摘要：This thesis investigates the design process of mobile-based narratives to verify whether the affordances and constraints of the supporting medium have contributed to shaping specific discursive strategies and particular participation modes. Have properties such as connectivity, location-awareness, portability, and multimodality enabled narrative formats that gained force by contesting traditional patterns and classic narrativity notions? The unveiling of the research inquiry happens through a bricolage of methods in a dialogue between artistic and scientific domains. The study of the phenomenon comprises three correlated stages. The first is a theoretical literature review that investigates the artistic use of locative and mobile media, and their influence in the basic principles governing narratives. The second is a case study of Blast Theory artistic practice grounded in an ethnographic approach with site-visit, and resulting in a qualitative analysis of four of their projects. The third moment consists of applied-theory activities that lead to the collaborative development of a geolocated narrative which serves to evaluate participant's experience.
