1st Edition
Place, Space, and Mediated Communication Exploring Context Collapse
Introduction
Carolyn Marvin & Sun-ha Hong
PART ONE. PROXIMITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS.
Drone Media: Grounded Dimensions of the US Drone War in Pakistan
Lisa Parks
Location-based services in Brazil: Reframing privacy, mobility and location
Adriana de Souza e Silva, Mariana de Matos-Silva & Ana Maria Nicolaci-da-Costa
Proximity awareness and the privatization of sexual encounters with strangers: The case of Grindr
Christian Licoppe, Carole Anne Rivière & Julien Morel
Dispossession and the Rights to the City
Margaret Kohn
PART TWO. PLACES ON THE MOVE
The Space of Architecture as a Complex Context
Richard Wittman
Revolution Reloaded: Spaces of Encounter and Resistance in Iranian Video Games
Vit Sisler & Ebrahim Mohseni
Democracy, protest and public space: does place matter?
Jeremy Németh & Evan H. Carver
State, Space, and Cyberspace
David Post
Biography
Carolyn Marvin is the Frances Yates Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of When Old Technologies Were New (1988) and Blood Sacrifice and the Nation (1999).
Sun-ha Hong is the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. His work investigates how new media and its data become invested with ideals of precision, objectivity, and truth through apparently non-rational means. His upcoming book is titled Data Epistemologies / Surveillance and Uncertainty.
