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- Andersson, Magnus
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The Flexible Home
- 2006
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Ingår i: Geographies of communication. - : Nordicom. - 9189471369 ; , s. 171-188
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Fornäs, Johan, 1952-
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Media passages in urban spaces of consumption
- 2006
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Ingår i: Geographies of communication: The spatial turn in media studies. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 9189471369 - 9789189471368 ; , s. 205-220
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The relationship between space and communication is becoming more complex. Mediatisation blurs the boundaries between different spaces, as well as between dimensions of space. It also leads to the re-articulation of geographical territories – often (re)producing socio-political values and power struggles. This book departs from the assertion that the changing character of media society calls for a spatial turn in media studies. There are clear signs that such a turn is on its way. But no account has yet been formulated for the full potential of this. Gathering new analyses from leading Nordic media scholars, geographers and ethnologists, this book provides a broad view of the perspectives that emerge from the spatial turn. The chapters explore issues such as (trans)nationality, tourism, urban culture, interactive media, and the networking of domestic space. Together, they map out what might become a new sub-field within media and cultural studies: the geography of communication.
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- Fornäs, Johan, 1952-
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Media passages in urban spaces of consumption
- 2006
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Ingår i: Geographies of communication. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 9189471369 ; , s. 205-220
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Places frame and delimit media uses, which at the same time create spatial formations as meaningful geographic places and social worlds. All media use is spatially located, framed and determined. A focal topic in media texts is to represent places and spaces, and afford them meaning. Media use also creates social spaces through structuring interaction between humans and the built environment. All these ways in which media use is spatially localised and localising were fields of struggle for power over space. This chapter is based on experiences from the unique media-ethnographic Passages project, where a large interdisciplinary research team empirically investigated interacting processes of communication and consumption in a shopping centre. This collective ethnography pointed at the crucial importance of space and place to media use and communication. Starting in a specific place like a shopping centre makes participant observation a main source of knowledge, mapping out the flows and structures at large. The size and complexity of such a place makes group work necessary, and invites innovative experiments in collective ethnography. The project had critical implications for basic concepts such as space and place, border and movement, field and locality. This chapter presents key conclusions from this research, as it relates to the articulation of media consumption and urban space.It discusses commercial urban spaces as sites of communication, of experience and of power. They frame complex flows of communication between individuals, texts and institutions. They are contexts for various kinds of experience, some carefully orchestrated by the management, others spontaneous or oppositional. They are also contested spaces where diverging interests collide, thereby highlighting basic societal contradictions between private and public spheres or between state, market and civil society actors. Issues of cultural citizenship, access to resources of communication and mediated interaction turn out to be bound to geographical and spatial dimensions for a series of contemporary power struggles. This discussion finally moves out of the shopping centre environment into a wider set of media flows, where similar themes are studied in people-s identifications in, with and of city identities, to see how different kinds of media thematise urban geographies. In this way, the chapter joins an analysis of media use in urban space with interpretations of urban spaces in media texts.
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- Löfgren, Orvar, et al.
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Postscript: Taking Place
- 2006
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Ingår i: Geographies of Communication: The Spatial Turn in Media Studies. - 9189471369 ; , s. 297-306
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- O'Dell, Thomas, et al.
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Magic, Health and the Mediation of the Body’s Geography.
- 2006
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Ingår i: Geographies of Communication. The Spatial Turn in Media Studies. - 9189471369
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter examines some of the ways in which spas strive to offer their patrons a series of mass produced experiences that are framed in terms of personal wellness and serenity. In order to do this, the text begins by briefly examining the manner in which spas are organised as conceived spaces in their own promotional material. In the process, this material is placed in a historic context and illuminates the manner in which spas have mixed medical, magical, and spiritual influences in the name of health and leisure. Following this, the chapter then moves on to more specifically problematise some of the ways in which a few contemporary spas actually organise themselves materially and spatially, and impress themselves upon the bodies and senses of their guests. In this section, and throughout what follows, the text focuses upon the body and discusses the central role corporeal and sensual impressions play in making sense of the world around us.
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