Place, Space, and Mediated Communication: Exploring Context Collapse

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Place, Space, and Mediated Communication explores how new communications technologies are able to disrupt our spatial understanding, and in so doing, reorganize the boundaries of human experience: a phenomenon that can rightly be described as ‘context collapse’. Individual essays investigate ‘context collapse’ in a variety of geographical and temporal settings, including: the US drone war in Pakistan, social media and sexuality in Paris, privacy and privilege in Brazil, and videogames and resistance in Iran. This cross-disciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how communication and space are co-constituted, and models exciting new paths of inquiry for researchers. Place, Space, and Mediated Communication is suitable for students and scholars of media and communication studies, cultural studies, urban studies, and sociology. Cover Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction: context collapse and the production of mediated space PART I Proximity and its discontents 1 Drone media: grounded dimensions of the US drone war in Pakistan 2 Location- based services in Brazil: reframing privacy, mobility, and location 3 Proximity awareness and the privatization of sexual encounters with strangers: the case of Grindr 4 Dispossession and the right to the city PART II Places on the move 5 The space of architecture as a complex context 6 Revolution reloaded: spaces of encounter and resistance in Iranian video games 7 Democracy, protest and public space: does place matter? 8 State, space, and cyberspace Index