1st Edition

Teletechnologies, Place, and Community

By Rowan Wilken Copyright 2011
274 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Teletechnologies, or technologies of distance, cannot be ignored. Indeed, the present electronic age is said to have wrought profound changes to how we think about and experience who we are, where we are, and how we relate with one another. Place and community have traditionally formed key concepts for thinking about these issues, but what relevance do these concepts now hold for us? In this... Read more

1. ‘Re-grounding’ Debate: Finding Place and Community in an Electronic Age  2. Techno-sociality: Computer-Mediated Communication and Virtual Community  3. The Problem of Community  4. Haunting Affects: Place in Virtual Discourses  5. The Quest for ‘Spirit of Place’: Architecture and the Rhetoric of Place-Making  6. Radical Possibilities: Early Experiments in Architectural Computing  7. A ‘Neuromanticism’: Architectural Visions of Cyberspace  8. Domesticating Technology, Mobilising Place  9. Rethinking Teletechnologies, Place and Community

Biography

Rowan Wilken is a lecturer in media and communications at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia