Making Publics, Making Places

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Making Publics, Making Places

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Edited by Mary Griffiths, University of Adelaide, Kim Barbour, University of Adelaide

Publisher:: The University of Adelaide Press
Online publication date:: July 2017
Print publication year:: 2016
Online ISBN:: 9781925261431

Subjects:: Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication

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This book focuses on the surprising generative possibilities which digital and smart technologies offer media consumers, citizens, institutions and governments in making publics and places, across topics as diverse as Twitter audiences, rural news, the elasticity of the public sphere, Weibo, cultural heritage and responsive spaces in smart cities. Multidisciplinary perspectives engage with critical questions in new media scholarship. General readers, curious about how technologies are enabling social, public and civic participation, will enjoy the book's mix of fresh approaches and insights.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Preface
pp vii-viii

Abstracts
pp ix-xiv

List of contributors
pp xv-xviii

1 - Making publics, making places
pp 1-8

2 - The elasticity of the public sphere: Expansion, contraction and ‘other’ media
pp 9-26

3 - ‘Imagine if our cities talked to us’: Questions about the making of ‘responsive’ places and urban publics
pp 27-48

4 - Picturing placelessness: Online graphic narratives and Australia's refugee detention centres
pp 49-74

5 - Reclaiming heritage for UNESCO: Discursive practices and community building in northern Italy
pp 75-94

6 - Find your Adelaide: Digital placemaking with Adelaide City Explorer
pp 95-110

7 - Chinese films and the sense of place: Beijing as ‘Thirdspace’ from In the Heat of the Sun to Mr Six
pp 111-128

8 - Social media and news media: Building new publics or fragmenting audiences?
pp 129-144

9 - The use of Chinese social media by foreign embassies: How ‘generative technologies’ are offering opportunities for modern diplomacy
pp 145-162

10 - An opinion leader and the making of a city on China's Sina Weibo
pp 163-178

11 - Public audiencing: Using Twitter to study audience engagement with characters and actors
pp 179-192

12 - Overcoming the tyranny of distance? High speed broadband and the significance of place
pp 193-216

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