scholarly journals Ambivalent Architecture: The Architecture Of “Distraction” The Influence Of Tele-Technology On Architecture And Urbanism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad M. Ghiyaei
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Decisionmaking Process ◽  
Architectural Element ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Effects Of Media

The physical environment is being transformed by tele-technology and the emerging space of communication networks. Wireless tools, our instruments to engage with the emerging space of media, distribute our attention and dynamically switch between two distinctive operating logics to deal with the media and physical space. In addition to distracting us, they allow the users agency and fluidity of function in the physical space. Through synthesized research into the socio-technical effects of media space and cybernetic architecture influenced by this emerging space, this thesis aims to find an architectural approach that approximates the simultaneous and distractive aspects of virtual space(s) we inhabit through our devices. An ambivalent architecture is proposed which reflects this pseudo-hyperconnectivityof cyberspace in the physical collective space, and promotes this socio-spatial transparency and gives agency to the inhabitants to engage with the space in different ways. In this architecture, the architect is the initiator of the spatial decisionmaking process which allows the public to constantly transform the nature of the architectural element with their active participation.

scholarly journals Ambivalent Architecture: The Architecture Of “Distraction” The Influence Of Tele-Technology On Architecture And Urbanism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad M. Ghiyaei
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Decisionmaking Process ◽  
Architectural Element ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Effects Of Media

The physical environment is being transformed by tele-technology and the emerging space of communication networks. Wireless tools, our instruments to engage with the emerging space of media, distribute our attention and dynamically switch between two distinctive operating logics to deal with the media and physical space. In addition to distracting us, they allow the users agency and fluidity of function in the physical space. Through synthesized research into the socio-technical effects of media space and cybernetic architecture influenced by this emerging space, this thesis aims to find an architectural approach that approximates the simultaneous and distractive aspects of virtual space(s) we inhabit through our devices. An ambivalent architecture is proposed which reflects this pseudo-hyperconnectivityof cyberspace in the physical collective space, and promotes this socio-spatial transparency and gives agency to the inhabitants to engage with the space in different ways. In this architecture, the architect is the initiator of the spatial decisionmaking process which allows the public to constantly transform the nature of the architectural element with their active participation.

Reception of A.S. Griboyedov on the Internet: based on the blog example about the connections of the writer's name with the Crimea

Neophilology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 765-775
Author(s):  
Sergey S. Minchik
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Affairs

Almost two centuries after death, Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (1794-1829) continues to influence social processes. To unravel the mystery of this phenomenon, it is necessary to answer the question about the character of perception of the writer and diplomat and to find out what features of his image appeal to modern people. The subject of this work is the perception of Griboyedov in the electronic environment. The work shows how the search engines index the blo-gosphere, which is dedicated to “the author of Famusov and Skalozub”, what topics are popular among its readers and what kind of audience it is, what influences the attendance of the only on-line-diary about the writer’s discourse, what is its history creation, purpose, structure, genre and style of material presentation, what factors determine the demand for the content of this resource and in which way it differs from similar media, what Web borrows from this project and in what manner. The basis of the narrative is made up of information that is not available in the public domain, observations over the media space are commented in the light of the state of affairs in griboedovistic. The request for the new data about the writer and diplomat on the virtual space is correlated with the attitudes of researchers and relevant publications of 2012–2020, the prospect of overcoming the identified discrepancies is associated with the changing of the agenda in modern science and disclosed by the characteristics of its tasks.

Introduction: assembling and materialising

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick McCurdy ◽  
Anna Feigenbaum ◽  
Fabian Frenzel ◽  
Gavin Brown
Keyword(s):  
Physical Space ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

In this section introduction the authors consider the different elements that are brought together to create the material and social infrastructures of camps. Taking seriously the material and social infrastructures of camps, they examine the spatial division of labour within protest camps. They also introduce how the architecture of the public squares and gardens that are occupied by protesters can shape the ways in which politics is practised within them. Protest camps are seldom spontaneous, and it is necessary to understand better the processes by which camps are planned, and the ways in which political practices travel between camps over time. This includes the important role of media and communication infrastructure. The authors highlight the need to examine the relationship between the physical space of occupation and the mediated or virtual space. Of interest are the media practices used to maintain and amplify spaces of protest, with particular attention given to the role of media - and social media in particular - in maintaining and amplifying corporeal protest camp sites.

scholarly journals Stereotypization and mythologization of the image of Russia in modern Spanish newspapers

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-282
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Oleynikov ◽  
Valentina A. Slavina
Keyword(s):  
Time Interval ◽  
Global Media ◽  
The West ◽  
Media Image ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Media ◽  
Spanish Press

The article discusses the stereotyping and mythologization of the image of Russia, identified as a result of an analysis of the modern Spanish press. The empirical base of the study consists of articles of electronic versions of socio-political newspapers “ABC”, “El Pais”, “El Mundo” from 2014 to 2018. The considered time interval is associated with significant changes in international relations and the emergence of differences between the West and Russia on key issues of its foreign and domestic policy. Immediate response of the international community to the actions of Russia has contributed to fundamental changes in its perceptions about the global media space. An important component of the image of the world in the media sphere is the image of the state, which is created primarily through the media. It is formed on the basis of actual events of the surrounding reality, reflects their dynamics, expresses the public consciousness and influences it. Creating a media image of Russia, Spanish newspapers rely on stereotypical ideas and myths about it existing in the West, and also take part in the creation of new ones. Stereotyping and mythologization form a specific negative perception matrix, which negatively affects the image of Russia and demonizes it.

PEMILIHAN UMUM INDONESIA 2014 DAN PENGGUNAAN MEDIA SOSIAL

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 222-237
Author(s):  
Muhammad Edy Susilo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Active Audience ◽  
The Media ◽  
Use Of Social Media

AbstrakPemilihan umum merupakan salah satu Peristiwa penting yang akan menentukan arah perjalanan sebuahnegara. Ada 12 parti politik yang bertanding dalam pemilihan umum 2014. Pelaksanaan pemilihan umumtidak dapat dipisahkan dengan media,kerana media menjadi salah satu cara bagi parti politik untukmendapatkan pemilih. Di Indonesia, hubungan antara politik dengan media menjadi lebih rumit keranasebahagian besar ahli politik parti juga merupakan pemilik media massa nasional. Sudah menjadi sifatmedia, untuk selalu akan menyuarakan kepentingan pemiliknya. Namun, pada pemilihan umum 2014ada fenomena yang menarik iaitu luasnya penggunaan media sosial, seiring dengan meningkatnyapenggunaan internet di Indonesia. Maka, kempen politik bergeser dari ruang fizik menuju ruang maya.Jika pada pemilihan umum sebelum ini kempen politik selalu melibatkan massa yang besar, pawai atauorasi di tempat, terbuka, namun kali ini kempen yang dilakukan adalah lebih bersifat individu. Kempendilakukan melalui telefon pintar, komputer riba dan gajet yang lain. Dengan media sosial, masyarakatbukan lagi penonton yang pasif tetapi aktif. Masyarakat boleh menjadi penyampai maklumat dan bukanhanya sebagai penonton, sehingga dominasi media massa konvensional runtuh. Salah satu fenomenayang menonjol adalah munculnya Tokoh Joko Widodo, yang popular dengan nama Jokowi, sebagai salahsatu calon presiden dari Parti Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan. Jokowi berjaya menggunakan mediasosial untuk bekempen, walaupun partinya tidak memiliki media massa. Abstract General election is one of the crucial moments that will determine the development of a country. Thereare 12 political parties competing in the 2014 Indonesian national elections. The elections cannot beseparated with the media, because political parties use media in their campaign to influence voters. InIndonesia, the relationship between politics and the media becomes more complicated because most ofthe party’s political elites are also the owner of the national mass media. It is the nature of media, to alwaysbe voicing the interests of its owner. However, in the 2014 elections there is an interesting phenomenon:the increasing use of social media, along with the increasing penetration of the Internet in Indonesia. Thus,the political campaign shifted from physical space to the virtual space. If in the previous elections, politicalcampaigns always involve huge masses and rhetorics in the open space; in this election the campaigncarried more personal. Now, campaigns are conducted through smart phones, laptops and other gadgets.With social media, people are no longer passive but active audience. People can be a message producerand not just as an audience, so the conventional media dominance collapsed. One of the prominentphenomenon is the rising popularity of the president candidates from the Partai Demokrasi IndonesiaPerjuangan, Joko Widodo, who is popularly known as Jokowi. Jokowi has successfully used social mediafor the campaign, even though his political party does not have the mass media.

scholarly journals Game TV Series as a Specific Form of Public Communication

2018 ◽  
pp. 192-198
Author(s):  
Andrii Mazepa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Form ◽  
Cultural Media

The purpose of the article is to study the role of television series as a system-forming factor of modern public communication in the field of domestic television space. The relevance of the article is determined by the insufficient knowledge of the structure and content of modern television series, which is the public basis of communication. In the scientific discourse there are no works that make it possible to comprehend the television series as part of the general cultural media space and contribute to the identification of semiotic codes that determine the unity of the sphere of public communication. The article points out that the development of the information and cultural space is becoming a factor of a powerful influence on society, especially young people. The article reveals the basic principles of building a postmodern television space, defines its specificity as an element of cultural policy. In this sense, the thematic content of the television series is based not so much on the foundation of pure artistic creativity as on the information field that the media form. The television series has the ability to blur the line between documentary and artistic reality and brings this communication characteristic to a new level – creating artistically revised reconstructions of real events within the framework of the paradigm “as it really was”. Due to this, the television can have a powerful manipulative potential.

scholarly journals Hegemonía y resistencia en el espacio mediático: los medios de minorías étnicas

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
Alicia Ferrández-Ferrer ◽  
Jessica Retis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The One ◽  
Transnational Space ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

There is a broad academic consensus on the role of the media in promoting and maintaining hegemony. However, the media can also be used to counter hegemonic discourses and empower people who have no voice. This is the case of ethnic minority media. The development of media by these groups has contributed to their inclusion into the public sphere, understood as the space in which citizen issues are articulated and negotiated, and where the struggle related to the imposition of hegemonic meanings takes place. In this context, they have become a tool in the fight against cultural hegemony, exclusion, and discrimination. Considering their enormous potential to counteract not only the biased and criminalizing representation of ethnic minorities in the mainstream media but also the “discursive exclusion” of these groups, the academic literature has described minority media as “alternative,” in two aspects: on the one hand, in relation to the generalist media, and on the other, in relation to their potential to offer new voices and discourses on social reality. This work focuses on elucidating the extent to which one can consider this type of media as “alternative,” considering that, despite their emancipatory potential, they are subject to the tensions and contradictions of the media space, which is emerging as a very complex space, influenced by other fields of power, e.g., political and economic. For these media, tensions are also generated in the transnational space, adding enormous complexity to the field. Resumen Existe un amplio consenso académico sobre el papel de los medios de comunicación en el fomento y mantenimiento de la hegemonía. Pero los medios también se pueden utilizar para contrarrestar los discursos hegemónicos y empoderar a las personas que no tienen voz. Este es el caso de los medios de minorías étnicas. El desarrollo de medios por parte de estos grupos ha contribuido a su inserción en la esfera pública, entendida como el espacio en el que se articulan y se negocian las cuestiones ciudadanas, y donde se produce la lucha por la imposición de significados hegemónicos sobre la realidad social. De este modo, se han convertido en una herramienta para la lucha contra la hegemonía cultural, la exclusión y la discriminación de colectivos minoritarios. Con su enorme potencial para contrarrestar no solo la representación sesgada y criminalizadora de las minorías étnicas en los medios de comunicación generalistas, sino también la “exclusión discursiva” de estos colectivos, la literatura científica ha calificado a los medios de minorías como “alternativos”, y ello en una doble vertiente: por un lado, en relación a los medios generalistas, y por otro, en relación a su potencial para ofrecer nuevas voces y discursos sobre la realidad social. Este trabajo se centra en dilucidar hasta qué punto podemos considerar a este tipo de medios como “alternativos”, teniendo en cuenta que, a pesar de su potencial emancipador, se encuentran sometidos a las tensiones y contradicciones del espacio mediático, que se perfila como un espacio muy complejo, influido por otros campos de poder, como son el político y el económico. En estos medios, dichas tensiones se generan además en el espacio transnacional, aportando una enorme complejidad.

scholarly journals WHEN ‘HOMELAND’ IS NO LONGER ‘HOME’, THE IDENTITY CRISIS, THE LOSS OF MOBILITY, AND THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN ——A STUDY OF SOCIAL MEDIA TESTIMONIOS BY CHINESE TRANSNATIONAL WORKERS UNDER COVID-19 GLOBAL PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing GUO
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Media ◽  
Policy Setting

In this article, I apply narrative analysis to draw a picture on the life of Chinese transnational workers under Covid-19 global pandemic in 2020. I try to explore the identity, space, and emotion of Chinese transnational workers under the pandemic crisis through their testimonios on WeChat public space, which is their first-person written narratives on their bitter, and even traumatic experiences of being a transnational worker in countries under severe pandemic conditions but unable to find their way home. With Chinese government’s policy setting broad limitations on international flights, requirements of Corona virus nucleic acid testing before boarding, unaffordable flight tickets and the forced, self-financed 14-day quarantine after landing, China, as the homeland of Chinese transnational workers, closed its door and turned them away. However, their sufferings and stories are less covered by the media and known by the public. By posting testimonios in virtual space on WeChat, Chinese transnational workers from various destination countries tried to voice themselves and appeal for supports.

scholarly journals The politics of public space in the media city

First Monday ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott McQuire
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Hybrid Spaces ◽  
The Media ◽  
Modes Of Interaction ◽  
The City

What happens when the TV screen leaves home and moves back into the city? The public domain of the 21st century is no longer defined simply by material structures such as streets and plazas. But nor is it defined solely by the virtual space of electronic media. Rather the public domain now emerges in the complex interaction of material and immaterial spaces. These hybrid spaces may be called ‘media cities’. In this essay, I argue that different instances of the public space in modernity have emerged in the shifting nexus between urban structures and specific media forms. Drawing on the pioneering work of sociologist Richard Sennnett, I offer a critical analysis of the forms of access and modes of interaction, which might support a democratic public culture in cities connected by digital networks and illuminated by large urban screens.

scholarly journals Religion in the Mediatized Public Spaces in Scandinavian Countries: Between Secular Neutrality and Nationalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-319
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Grishaeva
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Media ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media

The following article presents a systematic review of the studies of religion in the mediatized public sphere of Scandinavian countries. The mediatized public sphere is tackled as constituted by interrelated media spaces, those of mass media, the Internet, and religious media and media of popular culture which are specifically organized public spaces, each of which varies in their degree of openness to different publics. A review of the empirical research reveals the specificity of the public (re)presentations of religion in each media space. In the Scandinavian mass media, religious issues are covered within the political frame, and “banalized” (Hjavard, 2013), while religious organizations have few opportunities to influence the representation of religious content. Due to its’ non-strict “entrance fee” and the spread of horizontal links, religious issues are articulated by agents though different ideologies on the Internet. Religious media space is an environment where religious organizations seek to maintain an institutional version of the religious narrative. In the media of popular culture, religious themes as a part of popular culture are interpreted aesthetically, and thus, makes this space a repository of religious meanings and identities that can be used in the course of political and public discussions about religion. The variety of media spaces enables the public circulation of diverse representations of religion, and allows various groups to discuss their ideological articulations of religion. However, this results in the polarization of public debates about religion and the fragmentation of the audience. The proposed model of the media spheres’ division into political spaces can be used as a framework for the analysis of the (re)presentation of religion in the Russian media.

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