[Commlist] New book: The Digital City

New book from NYU Press, /The Digital City: Media and the Social 
Production of Urban Place/
by Germaine R. Halegoua

https://nyupress.org/9781479882199/the-digital-city/

/The Digital City/ focuses on the interface of people, urban place, and 
the role that digital media plays in place-making endeavors. Critics 
have understood digital media as forces that alienate and disembed users 
from space and place. This book argues that the exact opposite processes 
are observable: that many different actors are consciously and 
habitually using digital technologies to re-embed themselves within 
urban space.

Five case studies from global and mid-sized cities around the world 
illustrate the concept of “re-placeing” by showing how different 
populations employ urban broadband networks, social and locative media 
platforms, digital navigation practices, smart cities, and creative 
placemaking initiatives to re-produce abstract urban spaces as inhabited 
places with deep meanings and emotional attachments.

Through clear and accessible language and timely narratives of everyday 
urban life, Halegoua argues that a sense of place is integral to 
understanding contemporary relationships with digital media while 
highlighting our own awareness of the places where we find ourselves and 
where our technologies find and place us. Through ethnographic and 
discourse analysis of everyday digital media practices and technologies 
this book expands practical and theoretical understandings of how urban 
planners envision and plan connected cities, the role of urban 
communities in shaping and interpreting digital architectures, and the 
tales of the city produced through mobile and web-based platforms. 
Digital connectivity is reshaping the city as well as the ways we 
navigate through it and belong within it. How this happens and the types 
of places we produce within these networked environments is what this 
book addresses.



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