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Record Nr.

UNINA9910156245903321

Autore

McQuire Scott

Titolo

Geomedia, networked cities and the politics of public space / / Scott McQuire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, UK ; ; Malden, MA : , : Polity, , 2016

ISBN

1-5095-1065-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 pages)

Classificazione

SOC052000

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Public spaces

Digital communications

Mass media and culture

Information technology - Social aspects

Urbanization

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Geomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ubiquitous digital networks enable embedded and mobile devices to integrate place-specific data with real-time feedback circuits, everyday experience of public space has become subject to new demands. Looking beyond debates framed by the dominance of surveillance and spectacle, McQuire asks: how might the kind of collaborative practices that have flourished in art and online cultures be translated into urban space?   In the urban crisis of the 1960s, Henri Lefebvre argued that the capacity for a city’s inhabitants to actively appropriate the time and space of their surroundings was a critical dimension of modern democracy. What does it mean to speak of & lsquo; the right to the city & rsquo; in the context of the networked city? Addressing this question through a series of case studies, this cutting-edge text highlights the tensions between citizen and consumer, communication and surveillance, participation and control, which define contemporary



struggles over public space"--