Lasen Díaz, María Amparo2023-06-172023-06-17201813675494https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/17564This article explores the use of mobile phones as portable remediated sound devices for mobile listening — from boom boxes to personal stereos and mp3 players. This mode of engaging the city through music playing and listening reveals a particular urban strategy and acoustic urban politics. It increases the sonic presence of mobile owners and plays a role in territorialisation dynamics, as well as in eliciting territorial controversies in public. These digital practices play a key role in the enactment of the urban mood and ambience, as well as in the modulation of people’s presence — producing forms of what Spanish architect Roberto González calls portable urbanism: an entanglement of the digital, the urban and the online that activates a map of a reality over the fabric of the city, apparently not so present, visible and audiblespajournal articlehttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1367549417705607https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/european-journal-cultural-studiesopen accessPortable urbanismMobile phonesMobile listeningSonic presenceTerritorialityUrban acoustic spacesCultura popularSociología urbanaComunicación socialTecnología de la información (Ciencias de la Información)Música5101 Antropología Cultural6311.06 Sociología Urbana6308 Comunicaciones Sociales6203.06 Música, Musicología