Payal Arora

The Leisure Commons

A Spatial History of Web 2.0

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates Web 2.0 cyberleisure space by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its rhetoric of being open, democratic, and free for all: the urban park. It bridges the urban with the digital commons, revealing fresh insights on corporatization, privatization and democratization of new media spaces.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780415887113
• ISBN-10: 0415887119
• Artikelnr.: 41753621

Autorenporträt

Payal Arora is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication and Media at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is author of Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas (Ashgate, 2010) and winner of the 2010 Social Informatics Best Paper Award in 2010 from ASIS&T.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Metaphor as Method: Conceptualizing the Internet Through
Spatial Metaphors 3. Protest Parks: Digital Activism and the Public Leisure
Sphere 4. Walled Gardens: Online Privacy, Leisure Architectures, and Public
Values 5. Corporate Parks: Usurping Leisure Terrains for Digital Labor 6.
Fantasy Parks: Consumption of Virtual Worlds of Amusement 7. Global Cities,
Global Parks: Globalizing of Virtual Leisure Networks 8. Conclusion: From
Parks to Green Infrastructures