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



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Autore: McQuire Scott Visualizza persona
Titolo: Geomedia, networked cities and the politics of public space / / Scott McQuire Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, UK ; ; Malden, MA : , : Polity, , 2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (164 pages)
Disciplina: 307.76
Soggetto topico: Public spaces
Digital communications
Mass media and culture
Information technology - Social aspects
Urbanization
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Classificazione: SOC052000
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"--
Titolo autorizzato: Geomedia, networked cities and the politics of public space  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5095-1065-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910156245903321
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