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Publication Detail
Considering Communities, Diversity and the Production of Locality in the Design of Networked Urban Screens
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Publication Type:Chapter
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Authors:Motta W, Fatah gen. Schieck A, Schnadelbach H, Kostopoulou E, Behrens M, North S, Ye L
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Publisher:Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
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Publication date:09/2013
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Pagination:315, 322
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Volume:8117
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Editors:Winckler M
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ISBN-13:978-3-642-40482-5
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Status:Published
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Notes:© 2013 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. The full text is available at link.springer.com.
Abstract
Highly diverse settings such as London (with people from ~179
countries speaking ~300 languages) are unique in that ethnic or socio-cultural
backgrounds are no longer sufficient to generate a sense of place, belonging and
community. Instead, residents actively perform place building activities on an
ongoing basis, which we believe is of great importance when deploying interactive
situated technologies in public spaces.
This paper investigates community and place building within a complex multicultural
context. We approached this using ethnography, complemented with
workshops in the wild. By studying the relationships arising between different
segments of the community and two networked screen nodes, we examine the
place building activities of residents, and how screen nodes are incorporated
into them. Our research suggests that urban screens will be framed (and eventually
used) as part of this continuing process of social, spatial and cultural construction.
This highlights the importance of enabling socially meaningful relations
between the people mediated by these technologies.
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