Sam Hind
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
This book explores what's happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualised are digital. Cities have always been pictured, in many media and for many different purposes. This edited collection explores how that picturing is changing in an era of digital visual culture. Analogue visual technologies like film cameras were understood as creating some sort of a trace...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Traffic is culture. It determines what is where and on which routes, who meets and who doesn't it forms the basis of the networks between people and things. With the automation of traffic, the establishment of driver assistance systems and the development of self-driving cars, it is not only the relationships of human and non-human traffic participants that are being called into question. The ethical and legal foundations of road traffic as well as...
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Maps take place in time as well as representing space. The Google map on your smartphone appears to fix the world, serving as a practical spatial tool, but in practice is deployed in ways that draw attention to memories, rhythm, synchronicity, sequence and duration. This interdisciplinary collection focuses on how these temporal aspects of mapping...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? Autonomously acting media, distributed digital infrastructures, and sensor-based media environments challenge the conditions of accounting for data practices both theoretically and empirically. Which forms of cooperation are constituted in and by data practices? And how are human and nonhuman agencies distributed...
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies. With the emergence of digital and mobile technologies our conceptions and hopes of what citizen participation entails have changed profoundly. Interactive, networked and affordable technologies have transformed the relationship between knowledge, creativity and power. Citizens use media technologies in playful...