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Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies book cover

1st Edition

Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies

Edited By Gabriela B. Christmann, Hubert Knoblauch, Martina Löw Copyright 2022
300 Pages 77 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 77 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Through a variety of empirical studies, this volume offers fresh insights into the manner in which different forms of communicative action transform urban space. With attention to the methodological questions that arise... Read more

Part I: Introduction

1. Introduction. Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration
of Spaces

Gabriela B. Christmann, Hubert Knoblauch, and Martina Löw

Part II: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

2. From the Constitution to the Communicative Construction of Space

Hubert Knoblauch and Silke Steets

3. The Symbolic Construction of Spaces: Perspectives from a Sociology-of-Knowledge Approach to Discourse

Reiner Keller

4. Digital Media, Data Infrastructures, and Space: The Refiguration of Society in Times of Deep Mediatization

Andreas Hepp

5. Cities, Regions, and Landscapes as Augmented Realities: Refiguration of Space(s) through Digital Information Technologies

Gertraud Koch

6. The Theoretical Concept of the Communicative (Re)Construction of Spaces

Gabriela B. Christmann

7. Eliciting Space: Methodological Considerations in Analyzing Communicatively Constructed Spaces

Martina Löw and Séverine Marguin

Part III: Empirical Studies

8. Digital Urban Planning and Urban Planners’ Mediatized Construction of Spaces

Gabriela B. Christmann, Martin Schinagl

9. Centers of Coordination Refigured? Control of Synthetic Space

René Tuma and Arne Janz

10. Architectures of Asylum: Negotiating Home-making through Concrete Spatial Strategies

Philipp Misselwitz and Anna Steigemann

11. Over the Counter. Configuration and Refiguration of Ticket-Sales Conversation through Institutional Architectures-for-Interaction

Heiko Hausendorf

12. Innovation and Communication: Spatial Pioneers and the Negotiation of New Ideas

Anika Noack and Tobias Schmidt

13. Talking about Hip Places: Imaginaries and Power among East-German Reinventions of Urban Culture

Hans-Joachim Bürkner

14. A Systemic Model of Communication in Spatial Planning

Ursula Stein

Biography

Gabriela Christmann is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin and Head of the Research Department ‘Dynamics of Communication, Knowledge and Spatial Development’ at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, Germany.

Hubert Knoblauch is Professor of Sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is the author of PowerPoint, Communication, and the Knowledge Society, the co-author of Videography: Introduction to Interpretive Videoanalysis of Social Situations, and the co-editor of Social Constructivism as Paradigm? and Culture, Communication, and Creativity: Reframing the Relations of Media, Knowledge, and Innovation in Society.

Martina Löw is Professor of Sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. She is the author of The Sociology of Space and co-editor of Spatial Sociology: Relational Space after the Turn.

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