Overview
- Provides an accessible and succinct overview of current discussions on cyberspace as related to community and place
- Introduces a phenomenological approach to the discussion, a novel contribution which has not been represented in debates up to now
- The theoretical and empirical findings of this text will inspire future research on communities and neighbourhoods to take into account the web presence (e.g. websites, online museums, and online maps) of these social orders
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Geographies of Media (GOM)
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Boos reviews in the detail the existing academic literature from cultural anthropology, human geography, and sociology on “cyberspace”, concluding that a phenomenological perspective on cyberspace provides the possibility of gaining a deep understanding of our contemporary lifeworlds, in which on- and offline practices constantly intermingle. In four chapters, he applies the developed theoretical and methodological approaches to the case of Siena’s neighbourhoods, the contrade, analysing their websites and discussing the implications of his findings for understanding contemporary processes of community building and for future research on cyberspace.
This concise andaccessible book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in cultural anthropology, human geography, media studies and sociology.
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Tobias Boos is scientific assistant for cultural and social geography at the Institute of Geography at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. His research interests are diaspora studies, urban festival and the relation between processes of community building and new media.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inhabiting Cyberspace and Emerging Cyberplaces
Book Subtitle: The Case of Siena, Italy
Authors: Tobias Boos
Series Title: Geographies of Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58454-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58453-9Published: 16 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86413-6Published: 23 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58454-6Published: 02 November 2017
Series ISSN: 3005-012X
Series E-ISSN: 3005-0138
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 135
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Culture and Technology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of Culture