In:
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, University of Illinois Libraries, ( 2020-10-05)
Abstract:
This panel introduces and critically examines the concept of "digital
placemaking" as practices that create emotional attachments to place through digital media use. As populations and the texts they produce become increasingly mobile, such practices
are proliferating, and a striking array of applications and uses have emerged which exploit the affordances of mobile media to foster an ability to navigate, understand, connect to,
and gain a sense of belonging and familiarity in place. The concept of digital placemaking is both a theoretical and applied response to the spatial fragmentation, banal physical
environments, and community disintegration thought to have accompanied the speed and scale of globalization—the implications of which include suggestions that our collective sense of
place has been disrupted, leaving people unsure of their belonging within conditions and boundaries that seem increasingly fluid. While it is imperative to attend to the shifting
social, economic, and political conditions that give rise to such concerns, it is also necessary to recognize the many ways people actually use digital media to negotiate
differential mobilities and become placemakers. Papers in this interdisciplinary panel consider digital placemaking through a range of perspectives investigating lived experiences
of assorted communities with disparate social and economic power to demonstrate how digital media can facilitate social and geographic boundary crossing while encouraging new ways of
placing ourselves—symbolically, virtually, or through co-located presence.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2162-3317
,
2162-3317
DOI:
10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11152
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
University of Illinois Libraries
Publication Date:
2020
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