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Space and Place
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Informatics and Media.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5727-2697
2021 (English)In: Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media / [ed] Mona Baker; Bolette Blaagaard; Henry Jones; Luis Pérez-González, Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021, p. 395-399Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

How we conceptualize the relationship between media and space has implications for how we conceive of citizen media. Media may be regarded either as an enabling infrastructure that connects disenfranchised individuals and disparate locations, or as fundamentally interconnected with how we experience and negotiate locality. Media is also commonly understood to produce spaces in its own right, providing alternative geographies for action. Despite their centrality in contemporary media studies, space and place remain difficult to grasp as concepts, however, and continue to evoke discussion relating to the ontological status of the digitally connected human subject. This entry will therefore begin by outlining key debates that emerged in the late twentieth century and reveal the anxieties as well as wishful thinking characteristic of this period in relation to electronic and digital media’s ability to overthrow geography and enable disembodiment. It then looks more closely at what has increasingly been referred to as the ‘spatial turn’ in media studies. Addressing the materiality of everyday life, new perspectives focus more on how media interact with physical conditions and limitations, and stress the need to examine these issues from a grounded standpoint. Instead of leading to the end of geography, new flows and connections across the social and geographical dimensions are understood to ‘rearrange’ space and place, revealing previously unexamined spatial complexities. The entry will conclude with a discussion of findings from ethnographic work conducted among queer media users in contemporary Russia that examined their everyday movements and perceptions of space. It will draw on the work of media phenomenologists in order to capture the mundane entanglement of media in everyday experience and will argue for the importance of recognizing a multiply situated media user in order to grasp the complexities of contemporary social existence.

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Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021. p. 395-399
Series
Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media
Keywords [en]
space, place, citizen media
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Media and Communication Studies
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Media and Communication Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-538782DOI: 10.4324/9781315619811-66ISBN: 978-1-138-66556-9 (print)ISBN: 978-1-315-61981-1 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-538782DiVA, id: diva2:1899618
Available from: 2024-09-20 Created: 2024-09-20 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved

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