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Public Space, Media Space || by Chris Berry, Janet Harbord, Rachel Moore (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Public Space, Media Space asks how media saturation are transforming public space and our experience of it. From the role of graffiti and Youtube videos of street art in the Cairo revolution, to OOH (Out of Home) advertising, the book is diverse in its approach and global in its coverage. Public Space, Media Space asks how public space is being mediatized in different ways in different cities around the world today. Urban public spaces are saturated by media, perhaps more than ever before. These range from highly visible large LED screens in cities like Tokyo, through the cassette sermons one hears in the streets of Cairo, to the invisible, inaudible satellite surveillance systems that are everywhere. They include personal media like MP3 players and mobile phones, public information systems, commercial advertising, and more. How do these media shape, interconnect, or constitute physical public space, and how do they connect to virtual public spaces? How should we understand these phenomena? Is this simply a process of ever greater degradation of the public as direct face-to-face communication is replaced by ever more mediated and commercialized forms of communication among stranger

Who reads Public Space, Media Space ||?

Author

Chris Berry, Janet Harbord, Rachel Moore (eds.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Limited

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299952232

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Performing Arts, Anthropology