The convergence of smartphones GPS the Internet and social networks has given rise to a
playful educational and social media known as location-based and hybrid reality games. The
essays in this book investigate this new phenomenon and provide a broad overview of the
emerging field of location-aware mobile games highlighting critical social scientific and
design approaches to these types of games and drawing attention to the social and cultural
implications of mobile technologies in contemporary society. With a comprehensive approach that
includes theory design and education this edited volume is one of the first scholarly works
to engage the emerging area of multi-user location-based mobile games and hybrid reality games.
It is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate courses covering mobile phone or gaming
culture media history and educational technology as well as researchers and the general
public.
