Marvin / Sun-Ha Place, Space, and Mediated Communication

Exploring Context Collapse
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-39417-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 168 Seiten

Reihe: Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies

Place, Space, and Mediated Communication investigates the human experience in the process of being altered by digitally changing perceptions of spatial relations. Because our belief in a stable reality rests on shared spatial understandings, the disruption of those understandings can be rightly described as ‘context collapse’.

This volume details that phenomenon in a variety of settings. It appears in the new cognitive and spatial complexities of digitally enabled warfare that place in doubt older understandings of the moral relations among combatants. It governs how Iranian videogame creators are re-mapping ideological encounters between the West and Islam. It reflects how gay Parisians in search of intimate connections find themselves digitally liberated from physical menace but facing new relational dilemmas. It is seen in the digital penetration of privacy that once insulated Rio de Janeiro’s affluent classes, now subject to intrusive surveillance. Context collapse has also been a feature of earlier eras of technological change, as when printed images of the Roman basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura began to travel globally in ways that restructured experiences of sacred space. These and other cases in this cross-disciplinary collection of essays show how communication and space are co-constituted, and model exciting new paths of inquiry for researchers.

Place, Space, and Mediated Communication is suitable for upper level and postgraduate students as well as scholars of media and communication studies. This book may also be appropriate for those studying cultural studies, urban studies, and sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marvin, Carolyn

Sun-Ha, Hong

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Drone Media: Grounded Dimensions of the US Drone War in Pakistan

Lisa Parks

- Location-based services in Brazil: Reframing privacy, mobility and location

Adriana de Souza e Silva, Mariana S. de Matos-Silva and Ana Maria Nicolaci-da-Costa

- Proximity awareness and the privatization of sexual encounters with strangers: the case of Grindr

C. Licoppe, C. A. Rivière and J. Morel

- Dispossession and the Right to the City

Margaret Kohn

- The Space of Architecture as a Complex Context

Richard Wittman

- Revolution Reloaded: Spaces of Encounter and Resistance in Iranian Video Games

Vit Sisler and Ebrahim Mohseni

- Democracy, protest and public space: does place matter?

Jeremy Németh and Evan Carver

- State, Space, and Cyberspace

David G. Post

Über Autor(innen)

Carolyn Marvin is the Frances Yates Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electrical Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (1988) and Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag (1999). Her work addresses the history of media technology, the relationship of texts and bodies, the structure of sacred communities, and the politics of public space.

Sun-Ha Hong is the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT. His work investigates how new media and its data become invested with ideals of precision, objectivity, and truth through apparently non-rational means. His upcoming book is titled Data Epistemologies / Surveillance and Uncertainty.