1st Edition

The Spaces of Public Issues How Social Media Discourses Shape Public Imaginations of Issue Spatiality

By Daniela Stoltenberg Copyright 2024
210 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Ideas about matters of public concern are shaped by the spaces associated with them: Events occur in particular places, political regulations apply to specific territories, people in different locations are differentially affected by issues. Yet, political communication research has neglected the question of how the spaces of public issues are constructed in the public sphere. This is especially... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Digital Public Spheres, Socio-Spatial Inequality, and Issue Spatiality  3. Towards the Study of Digital Issue Spaces  4. The Spaces of Contentious Urban Issues on Twitter  5. Conclusion: An Integrative Understanding of Issue Spaces

Biography

Daniela Stoltenberg is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and the Collaborative Research Center 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces.”