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Geomedia - Networked Cities and the Future of Public Space

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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 'the right to the city' 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.

List of contents

Contents
00 Introduction
01 Transforming Media and Public Space
02 Googling the City
03 Participatory Public Space
04 Urban Screens and Urban Media Events
05 Recomposing Public Space
Notes
References
Index

About the author










Scott McQuire is Associate Professor of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne

Summary

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.

Report

"This book is a reflexive navigation of the changing meanings and uses of public space at times of intense mediation. Through the concept of geomedia, McQuire skilfully brings the media back to the city and to the public space where sociality and politics are negotiated and contested."
Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics and Political Science
 
"Scott McGuire's scholarly tour takes the reader from mimesis to urban screens, from the magic of the street to global interpersonal civics. His creative insights are rooted in an impressively diversified body of work from communication, urban, and architectural theorists. GeoMedia is an absolute primer in urban communication."
Gary Gumpert, Queens College of the City University of New York

Product details

Authors Scott Mcquire, McQuire Scott
Publisher Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 23.09.2016
 
EAN 9780745660752
ISBN 978-0-7456-6075-2
No. of pages 160
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

Literaturwissenschaft, Stadt, Kulturtheorie, neue Medien, Literature, Media Studies, Medienforschung, New Media, Theory of Culture, Communication & Media Studies, Kommunikation u. Medienforschung

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