Mediated Identities in the Futures of Place: Emerging Practices and Spatial Cultures (Springer Series in Adaptive Environments)

This book examines the emerging problems and opportunities that are posed by media innovations, spatial typologies, and cultural trends in (re)shaping identities within the fast-changing milieus of the early 21st Century. Addressing a range of social and spatial scales and using a phenomenological frame of reference, the book draws on the works of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Don Hide to bridge the seemingly disparate, yet related theoretical perspectives across a number of disciplines. Various perspectives are put forward from media, human geography, cultural studies, technologies, urban design and architecture etc. and looked at thematically from networked culture and digital interface (and other) perspectives. The book probes the ways in which new digital media trends affect how and what we communicate, and how they drive and reshape our everyday practices. This mediatization of space, with fast evolving communication platforms and applications of digital representations, offers challenges to our notions of space, identity and culture and the book explores the diverse yet connected levels of technology and people interaction. Preface and Acknowledgements Contents Editors and Contributors 1 Being and Becoming: Emerging Relationalities with Space/Place and Socio-Technical Geographies 1.1 Introduction: Being-in-the-World, Becoming-in-the-World 1.2 Space/Place Dichotomies and Interfaces 1.3 Mobilities/Motilities 1.4 Memory of Place: Dis-Emplacement, Dis-Embodiment 1.5 Emerging Relationalities References Placing Media: Locative Interfaces 2 Media Technologies: From Transcending Space to Socio-formative Spheres 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Background 2.3 Place: From a Relational to Frame-Based Concept 2.4 Transcendental Technologies, Frames of Observation and Place 2.5 Transcending Geography 2.5.1 Territory 2.5.2 Spatiality 2.6 Moving the Frames of Observation into/Within the Socio-cultural Threads: Understanding Locative Media as a Socio-formative Sphere 2.7 Conclusion References 3 Personalising the Urban: A Critical Account of Locative Media and the Digital Inscription of Place 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Spatiality Is not Simply Given (And Neither Is Locative Media...) 3.3 Foursquare 3.4 Pokémon Go 3.5 Method 3.6 Findings 3.6.1 Modified Mobilities 3.7 Frequenting New Places 3.8 Joy Through Play 3.9 Conclusion References 4 Mise-en-Scène 4.1 Light on 4.2 An Optical Street 4.3 Building Interface 4.4 Back to the Street 4.5 Stage to Screen 4.6 Urban Lighting: A Media Interface References 5 Expanded Architectural Awareness Through Locative Media 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Architecture 5.3 Expanded Cinema 5.4 Transitional Zones 5.5 Still Stair (2010) 5.6 Corridor (2011) 5.7 Openings (2013) 5.8 Interior/Exterior 5.9 Between Here and There (2011) 5.10 Ex/Enclosure (2013) 5.11 The Other Room (2014) 5.12 Conclusion References Spatial Representation: Social Interfaces 6 The Role of Technology in Shaping Student Identity During Transitions to University 6.1 Introduction 6.2 How Technology Changes the Way We Relate to Space 6.3 Methodology 6.4 Findings and Discussion 6.4.1 Social Media as a Transitional Social and Academic Tool Before Arrival 6.4.2 Use of Social Media as an Academic and Spatial Tool During Transition to University 6.4.3 Social Media, Technology and the Conceptualisation of University in a Neoliberal Marketplace 6.5 Conclusion References 7 How I Met My Neighbour Planning for Spontaneous Playful Interactions Through Public Screens 7.1 Play and Game 7.2 Living Together in the City 7.3 Planning and Designing for Playful Encounters in the City 7.4 Spontaneity 7.5 Anonymity 7.6 Gameplay 7.7 Results 7.8 Spontaneity Versus Anonymity 7.9 Urban Locations: Same but Different 7.10 Bench or Game? References 8 Constructing Authenticity: Location Based Social Networks, Digital Placemaking, and the Design of Centralized Urban Spaces 8.1 Introduction 8.2 The Techno-social Ontology of Place 8.3 Space and the Public Image 8.4 The Centralization of Network Culture 8.5 Constructing Authenticity 8.6 Hypermediated Space 8.7 Conclusion References 9 Reconstituted Smart Citizenships Hacking Data-Based Urban Representations of the Public Domain 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Spatialized “Wholes” and Differential “Flows” 9.3 Data Neutrality 9.4 Scalar Articulation 9.5 Practices of Dissent 9.6 Circulation and Play 9.7 The Edinburgh Deliveroo Game 9.8 Collective Assemblages in Cagliari 9.9 Conclusions References Spatial Cultures: Technology-Mediated Interfaces 10 Marginalised Geographies and Spatialised Identities 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Data Ecosystems and Inherent Bias 10.3 Data-Driven Geographical Mediations 10.4 Predictive Policing 10.4.1 Re-territorialisations and the Rise of Nationalism 10.5 Conclusion References 11 Noopolitical Resistances Networks as Counterlaboratories of Migration and Identity in Europe 11.1 Introduction. Europe, Habitat and the Refugee Crisis 11.2 (Counter)Laboratories and Noopolitical Strategies 11.3 Initiatives and Tools 11.3.1 Monitoring Information Tools 11.3.2 Maps and Cartographies 11.3.3 Media and Artistic Research 11.3.4 Makeshift Camps 11.3.5 House-Sharing 11.4 Conclusions References 12 Luxury as a Driver for New Urban Identities in Milan: Geographies, Spatial Practices, and Open Questions 12.1 Introduction 12.1.1 Why Milan? 12.1.2 Methodology and Structure 12.2 Luxury as a Catalyst for New Urban Identities 12.2.1 Geographies 12.2.2 Spatial Practices 12.2.3 Open Questions 12.3 Conclusions: The Open Relationship of Urban Identities and Luxury References 13 More than Urban 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Digital Design, from ‘Data as Information’ to ‘Data as Tension’ 13.3 Beyond Content 13.4 Fields of Tension 13.5 Form Matters References Conclusions: Mediated Identities in Place Futures 14 Conclusions Conceptualising Locational, Relational and Virtual Realities 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Sectional Findings and Thematic Propositions 14.2.1 Section A. Placing Media: Locative Interfaces 14.2.2 Section A: Thematic Reflections 14.2.3 Section B. Spatial Representations: Social Interfaces 14.2.4 Section B: Thematic Reflections 14.2.5 Section C. Spatial Cultures: Mediated Identities 14.2.6 Section C: Thematic Reflections 14.3 Overview: Mediated Realities References 15 Mediated Identities in the Futures of Place—Towards a Conceptual Frame? 15.1 Introduction 15.2 Social-Spatial Conceptualisations, Mediated Tensions and Integrations 15.3 Consciousness, the Self, Cognitive Psychology, Biology and Sociology 15.4 Cultural Identities 15.5 Patterns of Identity 15.6 Agency and Mediatisation 15.7 Mediated Cultural Novelty and Futurity—Old Wine in New Bottles? 15.8 ‘Place-Futures’ and Emergent Identities: Media and Spatial Culture? 15.9 Back to Place? 15.10 Towards a Conceptual Frame? 15.11 Future Prospects? References 16 Correction to: Being and Becoming: Emerging Relationalities with Space/Place and Socio-Technical Geographies Correction to: Chapter 1 in: L. P. Rajendran and N. D. Odeleye (eds.), Mediated Identities in the Futures of Place: Emerging Practices and Spatial Cultures, Springer Series in Adaptive Environments, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06237-8_1