Geographies of Digital Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138236226 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 172 str.

Tilo Felgenhauer; Karsten Gabler

Opis

The book explores the emerging spatial aspects of digital media from a cultural geographic perspective. It brings together a range of established and newly-emerging scholars to address the complex new spatialities of everyday practices associated with digital cultures and digital technologies. It examine the ways in which new technologies, media, and infrastructure systems become a part of both new and familiar geographical imaginations, spatial relations, and bodily practices.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Geographies of Digital Culture 2. What’s Being Tweeted There, Then? The Analysis of Perceptions of the Environment in Airport Terminals With the Aid of Twitter Messages 3. Translocal Social Practices and the Spatial Reconfiguration of Life in Rural-urban Bangladesh Part 2: Subjectivities and Identities 4. The Lived Experiences of a Digital World 5. Sexualities in Digital Culture 6. From Map-Reading to Geobrowsing. Methodological Reconsiderations for Net-worked and Interactive Geomedia Part 3: Politics and Inequalities 7. Urban Digital Divides 8. The Hyperreal of Space and Place: Youth on the Fly 9. Information Technologies and Banking Services in Brazil: The Diffusion of Debit/ Cred¬it Cards and Indebtedness of Low-income Population 10. Health (Crisis) Mapping: Digital Geographies of Public Health