The Leisure Commons

A Spatial History of Web 2.0
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-68804-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 312 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical continuity to this cyberleisure geography. This book investigates the digital public sphere by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its rhetoric of being open, democratic, and free for all: the urban park. It makes the case that the history and politics of public parks as an urban commons provides fresh insight into contemporary debates on corporatization, democratization and privatization of the digital commons. This book takes the reader on a metaphorical journey through multiple forms of public parks such as Protest Parks, Walled Gardens, Corporate Parks, Fantasy Parks, and Global Parks, addressing issues such as virtual activism, online privacy/surveillance, digital labor, branding, and globalization of digital networks. Ranging from the 19th century British factory garden to Tokyo Disneyland, this book offers numerous spatial metaphors to bring to life aspects of new media spaces. Readers looking for an interdisciplinary, historical and spatial approach to staid Web 2.0 discourses will undoubtedly benefit from this text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arora, Payal

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 2010from ASIS&T.