Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
31.08.2014
Verlag
Nai010 PublSeitenzahl
208
Maße (L/B/H)
22.6/14.4/1.7 cm
Gewicht
327 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-94-6208-050-8
Digital and mobile media are changing the way urban life takes shape and how we experience our built environment. This seems a mainly practical matter: Thanks to these technologies we can organize our lives more conveniently. But the rise of these 'urban media' also presents us with an important philosophical issue: What do they mean for how the city functions as a community?
Employing examples of new media uses as well as historical case studies, Martijn de Waal shows how new technologies, on one level, contribute to the further individualization and liberalization of urban society. There is an alternative future scenario, however, in which digital media construct a new definition of the urban public sphere. In the process they also breathe new life into the classical republican ideal of the city as an open, democratic 'community of strangers'.
Martijn de Waal is assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam.
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