Screen LibraryThe leisure commons : a spatial history of Web 2.0 /
"There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees histori...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Routledge studies in science, technology and society ;
27 |
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| Summary: |
"There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical continuity to this cyberleisure geography. This book investigates the digital public sphere by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its rhetoric of being open, democratic, and free for all: the urban park. It makes the case that the history and politics of public parks as an urban |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-184) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780415887113 (hardback) : 0415887119 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | TK5105 |
| CLC: |
C912.3-39 TP393.09 |
| Call Number: | TP393.09/A769 |