| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Chris Berry, Janet Harbord and Rachel O. Moore -- 1. What Is a Screen Nowadays? / Francesco Casetti -- 2. Multi-Screen Architecture / Beatriz Colomina -- 3. Mapping Orbit: Towards a Vertical Public Space / Lisa Parks -- 4. Cairo Diary: Space-Wars, Public Visibility and the Transformation of Public Space in Post-Revolutionary Egypt / Mona Abaza -- 5. Shanghai's Public Screen Culture: Local and Coeval / Chris Berry -- 6. iPhone Girl: Assembly, Assemblages and Affect in the Life of an Image / Helen Grace -- 7. In Transit: Between Labor and Leisure in London's St. Pancras International / Rachel Moore -- 8. Encountering Screen Art on the London Underground / Janet Harbord and Tamsin Dillon -- 9. Direct Address: A Brechtian Proposal for an Alternative Working Method / Marysia Lewandowska -- 10. Domesticating the Screen-Scenography: Situational Uses of Screen Images and Technologies in the London Underground / Zlatan Krajina -- 11. Privatizing Urban Space in the Mediated World of iPod Users / Michael Bull -- 12. Publics and Publicity: Outdoor Advertising and Urban Space / Anne M. Cronin |
| Summary |
Public Space, Media Space asks how media saturation are transforming public space and our experience of it. From the role of graffiti and Youtube videos of street art in the Cairo revolution, to OOH (Out of Home) advertising, the book is diverse in its approach and global in its coverage. Public Space, Media Space asks how public space is being mediatized in different ways in different cities around the world today. Urban public spaces are saturated by media, perhaps more than ever before. These range from highly visible large LED screens in cities like Tokyo, through the cassette sermons one hears in the streets of Cairo, to the invisible, inaudible satellite surveillance systems that are everywhere. They include personal media like MP3 players and mobile phones, public information systems, commercial advertising, and more. How do these media shape, interconnect, or constitute physical public space, and how do they connect to virtual public spaces? How should we understand these phenomena? Is this simply a process of ever greater degradation of the public as direct face-to-face communication is replaced by ever more mediated and commercialized forms of communication among strangers? Or are new publics, new public processes, and new public spaces being constituted? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mass media and culture.
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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Social media.
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Social Media
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social media.
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Cultural studies.
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Media studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Media Studies.
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Mass media and culture
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Mass media -- Social aspects
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Social media
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berry, Chris, 1959 April 28- editor
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Harbord, Janet, editor
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Moore, Rachel O., 1956- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137027764 |
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1137027762 |
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1299952232 |
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9781299952232 |
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