Neighborhood technologies : media and mathematics of dynamic networks / edited by Tobias Harks and Sebastian Vehlken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harks, Tobias, editor.

Vehlken, Sebastian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social networks.

Neighborhoods.

Segregation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Diaphanes, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Neighborhood Technologies expands upon sociologist Thomas Schelling's well-known study of segregation in major American cities, using this classic work as the basis for a new way of researching social networks across many different disciplines. Up to now, research has focused on macro-level behaviors that, together, form rigid systems of neighborhood relations. But can neighborhoods conversely affect larger, global dynamics? What relationships can be found between micro- and macro- perspectives?To answer these and related questions, this volume introduces the concept of "neighborhood technology

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Neighborhood Technologies: An Introduction / Sebastian Vehlken, Tobias Harks; I. NEIGHBORHOOD EPISTEMOLOGIES; Neighborhoods in Mathematical Optimization and Algorithmic Game Theory / Martin Hoefer, Tobias Harks; Ghetto Blasts: Media Histories of Neighborhood Technologies between Segregation, Cooperation, and Craziness / Sebastian Vehlken; Neighborhoods in Traffic: How Computer Science Can Change the Laws of Physics / Sándor P. Fekete; II. NEIGHBORHOD ARCHITECTURES; Neighborhood Design: Buckminster Fuller's Planning Tools and the City / Christina Vagt

Digitally-Driven Design and Architecture / Henriette BierIII. NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIETIES; Economics 2.0: The Natural Step towards a Self-Regulating, Participatory Market Society / Dirk Helbing; Neighborhoods and Social Security: An Agent-based Experiment on the Emergence of Common Goods / Manfred Füllsack; Towards a Media History of the Credit Card / Sebastian Giessmann; IV. NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIVITIES; Neighborhood Sounding: An Archaeology of Dynamic Media Networks 1960-1980 | 2010 / Shintaro Miyazaki

Digital Swarming and Affective Infrastructures: A New Materialist Approach to '4chan' / Carolin Wiedemann Choreographing the Swarm: Relational Bodies in Contemporary Performance / Gabriele Brandstetter; Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 29, 2015).

ISBN:

9783037345696

3037345691

OCLC:

918622870