Main entry:

Waal, Martijn de, author.

Title & Author:

The city as interface : how digital media are changing the city / Martijn de Waal.

Publication:

Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, [2014]
©2014

Description:

208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

Reflect ; 10

Notes:
Originally published in Dutch as: De stad als interface.
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Groningen, 2012.
Subtitle on cover: How new media are changing the city.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205).
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Pendrecht: a Brief History of the Parochial Domain -- ch. 2 The Neighbourhood as an Ìnterface' in Daily Life -- ch. 3 Digital Media and the Parochial Domain -- ch. 4 The Eternal Crisis of the Public Domain -- ch. 5 Schouwburgplein: the Public Domain in Practice -- ch. 6 Digital Media and the Public Domain.

Summary:

Digital and mobile media play an increasingly important role in everyday urban life. They are changing the way urban life takes shape and how we experience our built environment. This seems a mainly practical matter: thanks to these technologies we can organize our lives more conveniently. But the rise of these 'urban media' also presents us with an important philosophical issue: What do they mean for how the city functions as a community? Employing detailed examples of new media uses as well as historical case studies, Martijn de Waal shows how new technologies, on one level, contribute to the further individualization and liberalization of urban society. There is an alternative future scenario, however, in which digital media construct a new definition of the urban public sphere. In the process they also breathe new life into the classical republican ideal of the city as an open, democratic 'community of strangers'.--Back cover.

ISBN:

9789462080508
946208050X
(epub)
9789462080768
(Dutch edition)
9789462080492
(Dutch edition ; epub)
9789462080751

Subject:

Social media Philosophy.
Urban policy Netherlands.
Médias sociaux Philosophie.
Politique urbaine Pays-Bas.
Urban policy.
Stadt.
Neue Medien.
Stadtforschung.
Cities and towns Social aspects.
Digital media Social aspects.
Communities.
Public domain.
Netherlands.

Added entries:

Reflect (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; 10.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315225
Call No.: 315225
Status: Available