Spaces of Public Issues - How Social Media Discourses Shape Public Imaginations of Issue

With a focus on how social media users discuss different places in discourses surrounding urban policy, this book applies a novel theoretical framework to large-scale Twitter discourses in order to reveal the spatial patterns and inequalities of social media discourses.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Digital Public Spheres, Socio-Spatial Inequality, and Issue Spatiality 3. Towards the Study of Digital Issue Spaces 4. The Spaces of Contentious Urban Issues on Twitter 5. Conclusion: An Integrative Understanding of Issue Spaces

About the author

Daniela Stoltenberg is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and the Collaborative Research Center 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces."

Product details

• Authors: Daniela Stoltenberg, Daniela (Freie Universitat Berlin Stoltenberg
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032550923
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3255092-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: The Refiguration of Space
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, Media Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Humanities, Communication Studies, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban communities / city life