The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0 (Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society) - Tapa blanda

Libro 26 de 46: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

Arora, Payal

 
9781138688049: The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0 (Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society)
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 1138688045 ISBN 13: 9781138688049
Editorial: Routledge, 2016

Sinopsis

There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical continuity to this cyberleisure geography. This book investigates the digital public sphere by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its rhetoric of being open, democratic, and free for all: the urban park. It makes the case that the history and politics of public parks as an urban commons provides fresh insight into contemporary debates on corporatization, democratization and privatization of the digital commons. This book takes the reader on a metaphorical journey through multiple forms of public parks such as Protest Parks, Walled Gardens, Corporate Parks, Fantasy Parks, and Global Parks, addressing issues such as virtual activism, online privacy/surveillance, digital labor, branding, and globalization of digital networks. Ranging from the 19th century British factory garden to Tokyo Disneyland, this book offers numerous spatial metaphors to bring to life aspects of new media spaces. Readers looking for an interdisciplinary, historical and spatial approach to staid Web 2.0 discourses will undoubtedly benefit from this text.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Payal Arora is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication and Media at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is author of Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas (Ashgate, 2010) and winner of the 2010 Social Informatics Best Paper Award in 2010 from ASIS&T.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1138688045
ISBN 13 
9781138688049
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
210
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Europaallee 1
Bad Hersfeld
36244
Alemania

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780415887113: The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0: 27 (Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0415887119 ISBN 13:  9780415887113
Editorial: Routledge, 2014
Tapa dura