[Commlist] The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place

We would like to announce a new publication from New York University 
Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*The Digital City***

Media and the Social Production of Place

*Germaine R. Halegoua***

*_http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/the-digital-city_**__*

Every day, millions of people turn to small handheld screens to search 
for their destinations and to seek recommendations for places to visit. 
They may share texts or images of themselves and these places en route 
or after their journey is complete. We don’t consciously reflect on 
these activities and probably don’t associate these practices with 
constructing a sense of place. Critics have argued that digital media 
alienates users from space and place, but this book argues that the 
exact opposite is true: that we habitually use digital technologies to 
re-embed ourselves within urban environments.

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/The Digital City/advocates for the need to rethink our everyday 
interactions with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and 
social media as we move through the world. Drawing on five case studies 
from global and mid-sized cities to illustrate the concept of 
“re-placeing,” Germaine R. Halegoua shows how different populations 
employ urban broadband networks, social and locative media platforms, 
digital navigation, smart cities, and creative placemaking initiatives 
to turn urban spaces into places with deep meanings and emotional 
attachments. Through timely narratives of everyday urban life, Halegoua 
argues that people use digital media to create a unique sense of place 
within rapidly changing urban environments and that a sense of place is 
integral to understanding contemporary relationships with digital media.

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*Germaine R. Halegoua*is an Associate Professor in the Department of 
Film and Media Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the co-editor 
of /Locating Emerging Media/.

Combined Academic Publishers

*New York University Press**| Critical Cultural Communication | January 
2020 | 288pp | 9781479882199 | PB | £23.99**

*Price subject to change.

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