Making publics, making places / edited by Mary Griffiths and Kim Barbour.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Griffiths, Mary, editor.

Barbour, Kim, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public spaces--Information technology.

Public spaces.

Digital communications.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Adelaide : The University of Adelaide Press, 2016.

Summary:

This book focuses on the surprising generative possibilities which digital and smart technologies offer media consumers, citizens, institutions and governments in making publics and places, across topics as diverse as Twitter audiences, rural news, the elasticity of the public sphere, Weibo, cultural heritage and responsive spaces in smart cities. Multidisciplinary perspectives engage with critical questions in new media scholarship. General readers, curious about how technologies are enabling social, public and civic participation, will enjoy the book's mix of fresh approaches and insights.

Contents:

Making publics, making places / Mary Griffiths and Kim Barbour

The elasticity of the public sphere : expansion, contraction and "other" media / John Budarick

"Imagine if our cities talked to us": questions about the making of "responsive" places and urban publics / Mary Griffiths

Picturing placelessness : online graphic narratives and Australia's refugee detention centres / Aaron Humphrey

Reclaiming heritage for UNESCO : discursive practices and community building in northern Italy / Maria Cristina Paganoni

Find your Adelaide : digital placemaking with Adelaide city explorer / Darren Peacock and Jill MacKenzie

Chinese films and the sense of place : Beijing as "thirdspace" from In the Heat of the sun to Mr Six / Hongyan Zou and Peter C Pugsley

Social media and news media : building new publics or fragmenting audiences? / Kathryn Bowd

The use of Chinese social media by foreign embassies : how "generative technologies" are offering opportunities for modern diplomacy Ying Jiang

An opinion leader and the making of a city on China's Sina Weibo / Wilfred Yang Wang

Public audiencing : using Twitter to study audience engagement with characters and actors / Kim Barbour

Overcoming the tyranny of distance? high speed broadband and the significance of place / Jenny Kennedy, Rowan Wilken, Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold and Mitchell Harrop.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

OCLC:

1139844559

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.20851/publics