The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0

ISBN-13: 9780415887113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 210 str.

Payal Arora;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Positing social networking sites as virtual leisure spaces, this book argues that the properties of these sites are by no means novel, but are rooted in historical, economic, social, and cultural spaces, tied to offline practices, and marked by similar political struggles.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Metaphor as Method: Conceptualizing the Internet Through Spatial Metaphors  3. Protest Parks: Digital Activism and the Public Leisure Sphere  4. Walled Gardens: Online Privacy, Leisure Architectures, and Public Values  5. Corporate Parks: Usurping Leisure Terrains for Digital Labor  6. Fantasy Parks: Consumption of Virtual Worlds of Amusement  7. Global Cities, Global Parks: Globalizing of Virtual Leisure Networks  8. Conclusion: From Parks to Green Infrastructures

O autorze

Payal Arora is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication and Media at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is author of Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas (Ashgate, 2010) and winner of the 2010 Social Informatics Best Paper Award in 2010from ASIS&T.