What are the ties that hold us together?: The smartphone networks in 'as if no one is watching and body of knowledge'

In this time of ubiquitous media and digitality, the smartphone has become a central connective device. It facilitates a gathering together, tying us to people whom we know - and people whom we do not - as we participate in what Shuhei Hosokawa described in 1984 as acts of 'secret theatre'...

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Published in:Australasian drama studies 2021-05 (78), p.224-252
Main Author: Trott, Abbie Victoria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actors
Audiences
Decentralization
Grammatical case
Listening
Mobile phones
Performance (Arts)
Performance art
Prostheses
Smartphones
Social networks
Telematics
Theater
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Summary:In this time of ubiquitous media and digitality, the smartphone has become a central connective device. It facilitates a gathering together, tying us to people whom we know - and people whom we do not - as we participate in what Shuhei Hosokawa described in 1984 as acts of 'secret theatre'. The emergence of performance works made with the smartphone leads me to ask in this article: how does the smartphone operate in performance beyond the delivery of content? If smartphones tie us together, how can network theory offer insight into smartphones' role in performance in this time of ubiquitous media?
ISSN:0810-4123