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Gated Communities and the Digital Polis : Rethinking Subjectivity, Reality, Exclusion, and Cooperation in an Urban Future by Kon Kim & Heewon Chung is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Gated Communities and the Digital Polis : Rethinking Subjectivity, Reality, Exclusion, and Cooperation in an Urban Future about?
This edited collection provides an alternative discourse on cities evolving with physically and virtually networked communities the "digital polis" and offers a variety of perspectives from the humanities, media studies, geography, architecture, and urban studies. As an emergent concept that encompasses research and practice, the digital polis is oriented toward a counter-mapping of the digital cityscape beyond policing and gatekeeping in physical and virtual gated communities. Considering the digital polis as offering potential for active support of socially just and politically inclusive urban circumstances in ways that mirror the Greek polis, our attention is drawn towards the interweaving of the development of digital technology, urban space, and social dynamics. The four parts of this book address the formation of technosocial subjectivity, real-and-virtual combined urbanity, the spatial dimensions of digital exclusion and inclusion, and the prospect of emancipatory and empowering digital citizens. Individual chapters cover varied topics on digital feminism, data activism, networked individualism, digital commons, real-virtual communalism, the post-family imagination, digital
Who reads Gated Communities and the Digital Polis : Rethinking Subjectivity, Reality, Exclusion, and Cooperation in an Urban Future?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kon Kim & Heewon Chung
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd Fka Springer Science + Business Media Singapore Pte Ltd
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789811996849
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Business, Sociology