The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of the Network Society - Brossura

Tierney, Therese F.

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ISBN 10: 1138649309 ISBN 13: 9781138649309

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2015

Riassunto

Social media is restructuring urban practices–through ad-hoc experimentation, commercial software development, and communities of participation. This book is the first to consider how practices contained within social media are situated within a larger genealogy of public space, including theories of communal identity, civitas and democracy, the fete, and self-expression. Through empirical research, the actual social practices of participants of networked publics are described and analyzed.

Documenting how online counterpublics use the Internet to transmit classified photos, mobilize activists, and challenge the status quo, Tierney argues that online activities do not stop in online conversations; they are physically grounded through mobile GPS coordinates which are then transformed into activities in physical space―the street, the plaza, the places where people have traditionally gathered to demonstrate and express their opinions publicly.

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Recensione:

"The Public Space of Social Media provides a historically and theoretically grounded analysis of the way digital territories and performances redefine how the public situates itself within urban spaces. Not only does it expand the discourse with what urban space might look like today, but it also engages how the digital tools many of us take for granted in distributing and consuming content beg for us to refine the way we inhabit the city." - Kelsey Brennan, University of California, Berkeley, in TDSR

L'autore:

Thérèse F. Tierney is an Assistant Professor of Architecture with a Designated Emphasis in New Media at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138649309
• ISBN 13: 9781138649309
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 188