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The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space
01 Jan 2008-
TL;DR: The Uncanny Home as mentioned in this paper is a collection of articles about the state of the art in public and private spaces in the media city of the United States, focusing on public spaces: street, lights, and screens.
Abstract: Introduction The Uncanny Home PART ONE: THRESHOLDS OF THE MEDIA CITY The Territory of Images The City in Fragments Liquid Cities PART TWO: PUBLIC SPACE: STREETS, LIGHTS AND SCREENS Electropolis Performing Public Space PART THREE: PRIVATE SPACE: FROM GLASS ARCHITECTURE TO BIG BROTHER The Glass House The Digital Home Conclusion
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the ways in which linguistic resources, everyday tasks and social space are intertwined in terms of metro-lingual multitasking and argue that a focus on resources, repertoires, space, place and activity helps us understand how multilingualism from below operates in complex urban places.
Abstract: Drawing on data from two restaurants in Sydney and Tokyo, this paper describes the ways in which linguistic resources, everyday tasks and social space are intertwined in terms of metrolingual multitasking. Rather than the demolinguistic enumeration of mappable multilingualism or the language-to-language or language-to-person focus of translingualism, metrolingualism focuses on everyday language practices and their relations to urban space. In order to capture the dynamism of the urban linguistic landscape, this paper explores this relationship between metrolingual multitasking – the ways in which linguistic resources, activities and urban space are bound together – and spatial repertoires – the linguistic resources available in a particular place – arguing that a focus on resources, repertoires, space, place and activity helps us understand how multilingualism from below operates in complex urban places.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the affective dimension of the meaning and politics of human/non-human relations in the domain of science, and propose new epistemologies/ontologies that undercut the usual ordering of relations and their dichotomies.
Abstract: Rather than focus on effects, the isolatable and measureable outcomes of events and interventions, the papers assembled here offer different perspectives on the affective dimension of the meaning and politics of human/non-human relations. The authors begin by drawing attention to the constructed discontinuity between humans and non-humans, and to the kinds of knowledge and socialities that this discontinuity sustains, including those underpinned by nature-culture, subject-object, body-mind, individual-society polarities. The articles presented track human/non-human relations through different domains, including: humans/non-humans in history and animal welfare science (Fudge and Buller); the relationship between the way we live, the effects on our natural environment and contested knowledges about ‘nature’ (Whatmore); choreographies of everyday life and everyday science practices with non-human animals such as horses, meerkats, mice, and wolves (Latimer, Candea, Davies, Despret). Each paper also goes on to offer different perspectives on the human/non-human not just as division, or even as an asymmetrical relation, but as relations that are mutually affective, however invisible and inexpressible in the domain of science. Thus the collection contributes to new epistemologies/ontologies that undercut the usual ordering of relations and their dichotomies, particularly in that dominant domain of contemporary culture that we call science. Indeed, in their impetus to capture ‘affect’, the collection goes beyond the usual turn towards a more inclusive ontology, and contributes to the radical shift in the epistemology and philosophy of science’s terms of engagement.
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TL;DR: The potential for conviviality and intimacy to be fostered in the dark, the aesthetics and atmospherics of darkness and shadow, the possibilities for apprehending the world through other senses and the dismissal of the star-saturated... as mentioned in this paper explores the various qualities of darkness that have contributed to the experience of the city.
Abstract: Given geography’s neglect of illuminated and dark space, this paper explores the various qualities of darkness that have contributed to the experience of the city. In recent history, darkness has been conceptualised negatively, for instance, with the ‘dark side’ and the ‘forces of darkness’ conceived as the opposite of that which enlightens and illuminates. Perhaps such metaphors testify to earlier urban conditions in which perils of all sorts lurked in the nocturnal city and doors were closed when darkness fell. Yet modern illumination has transformed nocturnal urban experience, producing cityscapes of regulation, hierarchical selectiveness, consumption, fantasy and imagination. However, this article suggests that the more positive qualities of darkness have been overlooked: the potential for conviviality and intimacy to be fostered in the dark, the aesthetics and atmospherics of darkness and shadow, the possibilities for apprehending the world through other senses and the dismissal of the star-saturated...
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...In this oneiric city, ‘‘exhilarating and disorienting to its inhabitants’’ (McQuire, 2008, p. 122) space has been opened up to transgression, fantasy and experimentation....
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...The modern city has thus become ‘‘a perceptual laboratory’’ (McQuire, 2008, p. 114) and although an initial sense of wonder towards electric lighting has been replaced by routine apprehension, the urban nightscape still possesses the power to thrill....
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...Accordingly, as McQuire submits, a ‘‘new ‘map’ of the city’’ (McQuire, 2008, p. 124) was produced which floodlit key buildings but cast other sites into darkness, effectively manufacturing a reduction in urban difference and complexity, flattening out the city’s rough edges—those unlit material…...
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...…illuminated buildings appear to float, areas of darkness are impregnable to sense-making and scale and proportion may be deceptive as light enters ‘‘the optical unconscious as an ephemeral environment consumed in distraction and producing a range of unexpected effects’’ (McQuire, 2008, p. 212)....
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TL;DR: Christiansen and Just as mentioned in this paper called for a fundamental restructuring of research paradigms in geography and media/communication studies to form a bridge between core concerns of the two disciplines.
Abstract: We call for a fundamental restructuring of research paradigms in geography and media/communication studies to form a bridge between core concerns of the 2 disciplines. This endeavor responds to contemporary historical changes: mediated/mediatized mobility, technological convergence, interactivity, new communication interfaces, and the automation of surveillance. Long-standing concern with a set of issues we call representations, textures, structures, and connections provides a foundation for this interdisciplinary bridge. Integrating these concerns would produce a semi autonomous field, manifested through collaborations between geographers and media theorists.
Accomplir la diversite : capacite d’agir texte-auditoire et alternatives rhetoriques
Sine Just & Tanja Christiansen
Les enjeux de capacite d’agir (agency) dans les associations texte—auditoire sont moins etudies que ne le sont d’autres aspects de la capacite d’agir rhetorique.Nous suggerons de conceptualiser et d’analyser l’association entre les textes et les auditoires grâce a la perspective de la performativite, telle qu’elle a ete developpee par Judith Butler.Ainsi, nous soutenons que les textes invitent les auditoires a accepter des positions de sujets, comprises comme etant des combinaisons d’identite et de capacite d’agir.La rhetorique danoise de la gestion de la diversite joue le role d’un exemple illustratif. En analysant ce type de rhetorique, nous montrons comment les sujets sont appeles a des positions moderees de similarite/difference et demontrons ainsi le potentiel explicatif du cadre performatif.Par la suite, nous discutons des manieres par lesquelles le concept de personapeut offrir une base pour des alternatives au positionnement contraignant qui domine actuellement la rhetorique de la gestion de la diversite.
Mots cles : capacite d’agir rhetorique, identite, performativite, gestion de la diversite, communication de la diversite
Kommunikationsgeographie: Eine Brucke zwischen den Disziplinen
Wir pladieren fur eine grundlegende Neustrukturierung der Forschungsparadigmen in der Geographie und der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, um eine Brucke zwischen den Kernthemen dieser zwei Disziplinen zu schlagen. Mit diesem Ansinnen reagieren wir auf aktuelle geschichtliche Veranderungen wie mediatisierte Mobilitat, technologische Konvergenz, Interaktivitat, neue Kommunikationsoberflachen und die Automatisierung von Uberwachung. Grundlage fur diese interdisziplinare Brucke bieten bereits seit langem existierende Uberlegungen zu verschiedenen Aspekten wie Reprasentationen, Texturen, Strukturen und Verbindungen. Die Integration dieser beiden Bereiche wurde ein halbautonomes Forschungsfeld hervorbringen, welches sich in der Zusammenarbeit von Geographen und Medientheoretikern manifestiert.
Schlusselbegriffe: Kommunikationsgeographie, Interdisziplinare Forschung, Ort, Raum, Mediatisierung
La Geografia de la Comunicacion: Un Puente entre las Disciplinas
Resumen: Solicitamos una re-estructuracion fundamental de los paradigmas de investigacion en los estudios de la geografia y los medios/la comunicacion para formar un puente entre los preocupaciones claves de dos disciplinas. Este intento responde a los cambios historicos contemporaneos: la movilidad mediada/mediatizada, la convergencia tecnologica, la interactividad, las interfaces de los nueva comunicacion, y la automatizacion de la vigilancia. Las inquietudes de larga duracion con una serie de asuntos que llamamos representaciones, texturas, estructuras, y conexiones proveen de una fundacion para el puente interdisciplinario. Integrando estos asuntos produciria un campo semiautonomo, manifestado a traves de las colaboraciones entre los geografos y los teoricos de los medios.
Palabras Claves:Geografia de la comunicacion, Investigacion interdisciplinaria, Lugar, Espacio, Mediatizacion
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TL;DR: For instance, taking pictures or filming videos of strangers in public places and showing them in webs like Flickr or YouTube, or making self-portraits available to strangers in instant messenger, social network sites, or photo blogs are becoming a current practice for a growing number of Internet users as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Digital photography is contributing to the renegotiation of the public and private divide and to the transformation of privacy and intimacy, especially with the convergence of digital cameras, mobile phones, and web sites. This convergence contributes to the redefinition of public and private and to the transformation of their boundaries, which have always been subject to historical and geographical change. Taking pictures or filming videos of strangers in public places and showing them in webs like Flickr or YouTube, or making self-portraits available to strangers in instant messenger, social network sites, or photo blogs are becoming a current practice for a growing number of Internet users. Both are examples of the intertwining of online and offline practices, experiences, and meanings that challenge the traditional concepts of the public and the private. Uses of digital images play a role in the way people perform being a stranger and in the way they relate to strangers, online and offline. The mere claims about the privatization of the public space or the public disclosure of intimacy do not account for all these practices, situations, and attitudes, as they are not a simple translation of behaviors and codes from one realm to the other.
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