11 PlayStations On Being Curated and Other Geo-Ethnographies Lee Weng Choy and Larissa Hjorth PLAY WHILE MOBILE When Soohyun accidently mistook her television remote control for her mobile phone and put it in her bag and set off to work, the first thing she did when she realized her mistake was to share the moment via a picture taken with a borrowed mobile phone, which she then uploaded onto KakaoStory, the dominant Korean social mobile media platform. While she was trav- eling amid strangers on the train to work, back at home her own mobile phone was becoming full of comments from her “absent-present” 1 friends in co-present spaces, laughing and responding to her faux pas. Messages ranged from “You must be tired” to jokes about her control seeking and obsession with order “type A” personality. Soohyun’s mistake soon became an excuse to share fleeting yet intimate gestures, which have become an embedded part of contemporary smartphone life in Seoul. In Indonesia, boasting more 20 million Twitter users, 2 more than 5.3 mil- lion blogs, 3 and more than 42.5 million Facebook users, 4 Fatima is typical of her generation “Y” users, moving between Facebook and Twitter constantly through the day. Dubbed the “Twitter Nation” and “Facebook Country”, 5 Indonesia media practices are as political as they are personal. For Fatima, the surfing between these two media allows her to gain a sense of not only what her friends are feeling but also a context for determining what political issues are important. For Fatima, social mobile media plays an integral role in Indonesian contemporary urbanity. She could not imagine how she could keep in contact with her friends and know what is important news-wise without her mobile phone. In Nieu, a small island in the Pacific, passengers from the one daily flight in and out of the island are photographed and their faces placed onto Facebook. In this loosely self-governed country of two thousand inhabitants, systems of regulation are intertwined with its tourism industry. Is this a form of friendly surveillance? Or is that an oxymoron? In Tokyo, contemporary keitai (mobile) life is about the entanglement of the intimate and the public in new ways. For Toshi, the public and pri- vate are interwoven through a process of sharing camera phone pictures 6244-253-P2-011-1pass-r02.indd 146 6244-253-P2-011-1pass-r02.indd 146 12/19/2013 1:05:38 AM 12/19/2013 1:05:38 AM