Pokémon Go para onde? Incursões urbanas e ressignificações de espaço mediadas por uma tecnologia híbrida

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the interactive dynamics brokered by Pokémon Go game trough the city experiences and its effects in the context of actor s relationships (humans and non-humans) which comprises the game s sociotechnical network. For this, It is intended: 1) present the Pokémon Go phenomenon under its rules; 2) analyze the game as a hybrid media, local and ubiquitous; 3) observe groups of players in the online and offline s environment; 4) Describe the interagents actions which integrate the game s sociotechnical network; under the Sociology perspective of Associations or Actor-Network s Theory (LATOUR, 2012); 5) and identify how the human and non-humans actors raise deviations in the network s relationships of the game with the city. From a mixed methodological work, which comprised the observation of Facebook group players, it was possible to note that Pokémon Go phenomenon surpasses its aspects of playfulness and entertainment, also provides the player s interactions in the city, concerning the discovery of new places, experience, public occupations and specific locations reframing, as well, even if it is temporarily. Besides, the research showed us that the social, political and economical constitution of Rio de Janeiro city also modulates the actions on the game s network moreover, due to some of the player s appropriation of a ubiquitous technology, the Fake GPS, we are able to think about brand new reflections through another experience scenario in and of the city