scholarly journals Lifestyle Enclaves in the Instagram City?

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512094069
Author(s):  
John D. Boy ◽  
Justus Uitermark
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The City

Commentators and scholars view both social media and cities as sites of fragmentation. Since both urban dwellers and social media users tend to form assortative social ties, so the reasoning goes, identity-based divisions are fortified and polarization is exacerbated in digital and urban spaces. Drawing on a dataset of 34.4 million interactions among Amsterdam Instagram users over half a year, this article seeks to gauge the level of fragmentation that occurs at the interface of digital and urban spaces. We find some evidence for fragmentation: users form clusters based on shared tastes and leisure activities, and these clusters are embedded in four distinct lifestyle zones at the interface of social media and the city. However, we also find connections that span divisions. Similarly, places that are tagged by Instagram users generally include a heterogeneity of clusters. While there is evidence that Instagram users sort into groups, there is no evidence that these groups are isolated from one another. In fact, our findings suggest that Instagram enables ties across different groups and mitigates against particularity and idiosyncrasy. These findings have important implications for how we should understand and study social media in the context of everyday life. Scholars should not only look for evidence of division through standard network analytic techniques like community detection, but also allow for countervailing tendencies.

Debord, Guy (1931–1994)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Robert Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Situationist International ◽  
Art And Politics ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Political Theorist ◽  
Advanced Capitalism ◽  
The City

Guy Ernest Debord (1931–1994) was a French radical political theorist, writer, activist and filmmaker. After his early involvement with French avant-garde art movements in the 1950s, Debord founded a revolutionary organization, the Situationist International (SI), in 1957. Inspired by earlier avant-garde movements like Dada and surrealism, Debord sought to create an explicitly political and critical art practice that could be employed to transform everyday life. The SI attracted sound poets, architects, writers, activists, graphic artists and painters. The movement sought to merge everyday life, art and politics through such practices as radical city planning, the beautification of the city through graffiti, and rambling psycho-geographic drifts through urban spaces, seeking to uncover the desire and beauty that had been hidden by advanced capitalism.

scholarly journals NEGOTIATED URBAN SPACE AT MANGGARAI STATION JAKARTA: THE APPROPRIATION OF SPACE BY BAJAJ DRIVERS

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Nurliani Lukito ◽  
Rumishatul Ulya
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Urban Informality ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Specific Mode ◽  
The City ◽  
Limited Possibility

This paper aims to investigate the negotiation between the “formal” and the “informal” urban space in Jakarta through the examination of use of space of marginalized transportation of bajaj – a three-wheeled public transportation. Bajaj drivers continuously and creatively create their use of space and territory as the result of the limitation of space. Creativity in using space emerges as a way to get available space and this activity results in the appropriation of urban space. The basis of such appropriation is how to survive in urban space and such condition is characterized by negotiation, flexibility and adaptability. In high-density Jakarta city, it is necessary for bajaj drivers – who have only limited possibility in using strategic urban space – to use both the formal and the informal to sustain the city at large. An analysis of how bajaj drivers negotiated urban spaces around Manggarai Station reveals the appropriation of urban space that relies on temporality, tactics and negotiation of rules of access among users. In this paper, we analyze how urban informality as an ‘organizing logic’ results in a specific mode of the production of space. The analysis of negotiations of space around Manggarai Station is intended to contribute to an understanding of how informal and negotiated spaces, which shape everyday life in the city, are inseparable parts of formal and designed spaces in the city of Jakarta.

scholarly journals Combining Cluster-Based Profiling Based on Social Media Features and Association Rule Mining for Personalised Recommendations of Touristic Activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 6512
Author(s):  
Jonathan Ayebakuro Orama ◽  
Joan Borràs ◽  
Antonio Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Association Rule ◽  
Association Rule Mining ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
User Profiles ◽  
Rule Mining ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

Tourists who visit a city for the first time may find it difficult to decide on places to visit, as the amount of information in the Web about cultural and leisure activities may be large. Recommender systems address this problem by suggesting the points of interest that fit better with the user’s preferences. This paper presents a novel recommender system that leverages tweets to build user profiles, taking into account not only their personal preferences but also their travel habits. Association rules, which are mined from the previous visits of users documented on Twitter, are used to make the final recommendations of places to visit. The system has been applied to data of the city of Barcelona, and the results show that the use of the social media-based clustering procedure increases its performance according to several relevant metrics.

scholarly journals A Review of P. LOZOVYUK, A. PRIGARIN, A.O., ETNOLOGIYA ODESSY V ISTORICHESKOY I SOVREMENNOY PERSPEKTIVAKH [THE ETHNOLOGY OF ODESSA FROM HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSРECTIVES]. Odessa: Irbis, 2017, 387 pp.

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (47) ◽  
pp. 229-240
Author(s):  
Julia Buchatskaja ◽  
◽  
Denis Ermolin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Virtual Image ◽  
Festive Culture ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
The City ◽  
Tools And Methods

The reviewed monograph is devoted to the ethnology of Odessa in the broadest sense — from the stages of the formation of individual districts of the city and the image of Odessa in fiction, the press and memoirs, to various aspects of contemporary urban life, such as the functioning of markets, festive culture, the virtual image of the city, or the everyday life of sailors’ wives. The authors of the monograph primarily aim to examine the formation and stages of the evolution of Odessa as a multifaceted city with emphasis on certain subjects of urban everyday life. In the opinion of the reviewers, however, there is practically no analysis of urban spaces in the monograph, in spite of the “successful urbanistic model” of Odessa proposed by the authors. It is also important to emphasize that — with the existing insider knowledge and experience of living in Odessa — the authors of the monograph under review did not fully problematize the described social and cultural reality and the range of modern problems that the city and its inhabitants face with varying degrees of intensity. They thus remain within the comfortable captivity of the so-called “Odessa” myth and, to some extent, end up reproducing rather than deconstructing it through the theoretical tools and methods at their disposal.

scholarly journals Sensing the City - Mapping the Beat. A rhythmanalysis of music-making in Wellington and Copenhagen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Katie Rochow
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Meaningful Experiences ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
The City

<p>The idea of rhythm has figured as a key conceptual and empirical motif in current research on (urban) space, place and everyday life. Urban spaces are considered polyrhythmic fields, a compound of varied everyday life and spatial rhythms, which produce a particular, but ever-changing, complex mix of heterogeneous social interactions, mobilities, imaginaries and materialities (Edensor 2010). Music-making in the city therefore constitutes and is constituted by a plurality of urban rhythms including the movement between different locations as well as regular temporal patterns of events, activities, experiences and practices as well as energies, objects, flora and fauna which shape the music-maker’s mundane ‘pathways’ through the city. Based on current ethnographic fieldwork in the urban spaces of Wellington (Aotearoa/New Zealand), and Copenhagen (Denmark) this project proposes a way of capturing, understanding and interpreting the multi-faceted rhythmical layout of urban spaces. It will do so by introducing a rhythmanalytical methodology, which draws on interviews, participant generated photographs and mental maps as analytical tools for capturing the interwovenness of socialities, atmospheres, object, texts and images in people’s everyday lives and in this way affords opportunities for attending to the multiple rhythms underlying music-making in the city. The use of cartographic and photographic means of representing these rhythmical dimensions allows us to better attend to an affective register that is often overlooked in studies of music-making. It makes visible some of the ways in which places, from the home to the studio to the performance venue and points in-between form a connective tissue, which anchors the music-makers to the city as well as lends the city its ambience, and, more importantly, its affective charge. As such, the manner in which mood, feeling, a “sense of place,” is evoked through the visual representation of music-makers’ everyday life suggests how the scenic aspects of the city work to simultaneously frame, mediate and facilitate meaningful experiences of place. Consequently, this study documents, through a unique medley of research methods, the way in which music-making serves as a vehicle for the social production of place and the creation of an affective attachment to that place both individual and collective.</p>

scholarly journals Public policies and the city: producing inclusive urban spaces

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 1007-1014
Author(s):  
Sonia Maria Fleury Teixeira ◽  
Joan Subirats ◽  
Daniel S. Lacerda ◽  
Ismael Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Financial Investments ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Abstract Research on cities have received increased attention over the years. Urban spaces are, on the one hand, a significant target of speculative financial investments and commodification of life, generating dynamics that are very difficult to contain within the competencies of local governments. At the same time, cities are the central space of everyday life, where there is resistance at many levels seeking to defend the conditions of living and subsistence of the majority of citizens. This special issue presents exciting contributions to the debate on public policies and the city. The articles published approach cities as urban spaces of diversity and encounters; the arena of discursive and material struggles; contradictory embeddedness of commodification and resistance; the focus of institutional disputes between exclusion and participation; and finally, changing spaces that respond to the need for new management technologies at a local level. Drawing on various theoretical frameworks and rich empirical discussions, this special issue reclaims cities as central spaces of everyday life, which are particularly important for protection and emancipation in a global scenario of uncertainty.

scholarly journals Proud to be a Malaysian!-Malaysian Identity in YouTube Comments

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3S2) ◽  
pp. 745-751
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Code Mixing ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Mediated Discourse ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Youtube Videos

Social media has become a part and parcel of many online users’ everyday life as it allows the users to share their ideas and comments. One example of social media which is content-based is YouTube. YouTube provides a platform for users to upload video clips, viewable by anyone, and the users can also write comments. Even though Internet users can remain anonymous in the boundless cyberspace many traces of identity of a particular community can still be recognised through the use of language online. Thus, a vast amount of language and computer-mediated discourse can be gathered from social media such as YouTube to aid in the understanding of a particular community’s identity. This current study is interested to investigate how the Malaysian identity is being represented in YouTube comments through its users. The responses and phrases used to comment on Malaysia related YouTube videos were analysed to see whether they yield any interesting linguistic data. Findings revealed that there were a few recurring categories of expressions being mentioned in the YouTube comments that can be used to represent the Malaysian identity such as feelings towards the country and being a Malaysian, the food in Malaysia, languages, race and identity, Malaysian stereotypes or behaviours, as well as the geographical location of Malaysia. Code switching and code mixing were also regarded as part of the Malaysian identity based on the YouTube comments.

scholarly journals Brand New Images? Implications of Instagram Photography for Place Branding

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åsa Thelander ◽  
Cecilia Cassinger
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Practice Approach ◽  
The City

The aim of this article is to develop an understanding of what happens when Instagram photography is used for branding a place. Questions raised are which photographs are taken and published, does the practice result in novel ways of representing a place, and, in turn the image of a place. A practice approach to photography is used where focus is directed to the performative aspect of photography. Fifteen qualitative interviews were conducted with participants in an Instagram takeover project concerning their photographs. The study shows that adopting a communication strategy based on visual social media is dependent on the participants’ competencies and that it is embedded in everyday life. Moreover, the participants’ photographic practices were found to be influenced by social conventions, which resulted in the city being imagined differently by different participants. To use visual social media such as Instagram for branding purposes does not necessarily mean that novel images are generated, but that they are choreographed according to the conditions of Instagram as medium.

scholarly journals Public Space as Infrastructure of Care

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannis Kallianos ◽  
Pafsanias Karathanasis
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Central Places ◽  
Public Square ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Critical Site

Our contribution puts forward an examination of public spaces as infrastructures of care. The eruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the “social distancing” measures imposed by several governments around the world, transformed the very use and conceptualization of urban public spaces. In Athens, Greece, public space, which had already been in different ways at the forefront of multifarious crises since 2010, reemerged, once again, as a critical site of sociopolitical antagonism. Public spaces, such as squares, became central places where people could come together to share knowledge and emotions, collectively alleviate anxieties, and thus (re)negotiate their positionality in the city. Such formations and enactments of social connection, affectivity, and antagonism, reflect the entanglement between everyday life and the political, and also draw attention to the association of public space with practices of care for collective well-being during precarious times. During the ever-increasing securitization and policing of urban spaces in Athens, in which everyday life has come to be ever more permeated by precarity and uncertainty, public spaces have been reenacted as safe and more inclusive environments where people can be and act together. Our contribution also employs a video to render more intelligible the affective interconnectedness of sounds, images, bodies, materialities, and practices in public space. By attending to the affective dynamics of a public square in central Athens, we examine the entanglements between the sociopolitical production of public space and forms of care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Women’s Social Memory of Daily Life through Diaries (1951–1969) of a Female Dweller of Stalingrad (Volgograd)

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-54
Author(s):  
И.В. Богдашина
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Volgograd Region ◽  
Archival Source ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light

Дневники хирурга Зинаиды Сергеевны Седельниковой хранятся в Государственном архиве Волгоградской области в коллекции документов медицинских работников и являются редким архивным источником по истории женского нестоличного быта и повседневности. Автор очень бережно относилась к дневникам, которые вела с 1933 по 2004 год, разделив их на 179 тетрадей. Область наших научных интересов представляют дневниковые записи, сделанные в период с 1951 по 1969год (тетради № 35–85) и охватывающие события города Волгограда (Сталинграда). Основным содержанием дневниковых записей являются заметки с описанием повседневной жизни и окружающей обстановки, особое внимание уделяется эпизодам бытового характера: обеспечение продовольственными и непродовольственными товарами, жилищные условия, внутрисемейные отношения и досуговые занятия. Особенности дневника состоят не только в авторских записях, но и вложенных и вклеенных фотографиях, вырезках из газет и календарей, телеграмм, писем, театральных буклетов, билетов на мероприятия, лоскутков тканей и гербариев цветов. Благодаря наличию такого редкого источника личного происхождения, мы имеем возможность воссоздать картину повседневного быта нестоличного региона через призму женского восприятия. The State Archive of the Volgograd Region stores diaries of a surgeon Zinaida Sergeyevna Sedelnikova. The diaries are part of the collection of documents of healthcare workers and are a rare archival source that can shed light on the history of everyday life as viewed by women living far from the capital. The author of the diaries treated them with meticulous care and completed 179 notebooks, her first diary was written in 1933, her last diary was completed in 2004. Our research investigates diary entries written in 1951–1969 (notebooks 35–85) and describing events witnessed by the author in the city of Volgograd (Stalingrad). The analyzed diary entries focus on everyday life, they describe the environment in which the author lived and treat some daily routines: provision of food and non-food products, accommodation, family relationships, and leisure activities. The diaries do not only contain the authors’ memories, they also include numerous photographs, newspaper clippings and calendar sheets, telegrams, letters, theatre booklets, tickets for events, pieces of fabric, dried flowers. This unique and rare document enables us to clearly visualize everyday life and daily routines through the eyes of a woman living far from the capital.

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