Narratives of Ambient Play: Camera Phone Practices in Urban Cartographies

This chapter explores the unofficial role of camera phone practices in visualising everyday forms of ambient play. I argue that camera phone practices-especially in an age of geo-tagging-are creating their own cartographies of place that overlay the visual with the ambient, social with the geographic, and emotional with the electronic. In other words, camera phone practices evoke the ongoing importance of ambient play and co-presence in mapping a sense of place.