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Geographies of Digital Culture

184 Pages

by Routledge

184 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

184 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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“Digital culture” reflects the ways in which the ubiquity and increasing use of digital devices and infrastructures is changing the arenas of human experience, creating new cultural realities. Whereas much of the existing literature on digital culture addresses the topic through a sociological, anthropological, or media theoretic lens, this book focuses on its geographic aspects. The first... Read more

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