Making publics, making places / / edited by Mary Griffiths and Kim Barbour.

• TeilnehmendeR: Griffiths, Mary,; Barbour, Kim,
• Place / Publishing House: Adelaide : : The University of Adelaide Press,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 216 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

This book focuses on the surprising generative possibilities which digital and smart technologies offer media consumers, citizens, institutions and governments in making publics and places, across topics as diverse as Twitter audiences, rural news, the elasticity of the public sphere, Weibo, cultural heritage and responsive spaces in smart cities. Multidisciplinary perspectives engage with critical questions in new media scholarship. General readers, curious about how technologies are enabling social, public and civic participation, will enjoy the book's mix of fresh approaches and insights.

Table of Contents

Making publics, making places / Mary Griffiths and Kim Barbour -- The elasticity of the public sphere : expansion, contraction and "other" media / John Budarick -- "Imagine if our cities talked to us": questions about the making of "responsive" places and urban publics / Mary Griffiths -- Picturing placelessness : online graphic narratives and Australia's refugee detention centres / Aaron Humphrey -- Reclaiming heritage for UNESCO : discursive practices and community building in northern Italy / Maria Cristina Paganoni -- Find your Adelaide : digital placemaking with Adelaide city explorer / Darren Peacock and Jill MacKenzie -- Chinese films and the sense of place : Beijing as "thirdspace" from In the Heat of the sun to Mr Six / Hongyan Zou and Peter C Pugsley -- Social media and news media : building new publics or fragmenting audiences? / Kathryn Bowd -- The use of Chinese social media by foreign embassies : how "generative technologies" are offering opportunities for modern diplomacy Ying Jiang -- An opinion leader and the making of a city on China's Sina Weibo / Wilfred Yang Wang -- Public audiencing : using Twitter to study audience engagement with characters and actors / Kim Barbour -- Overcoming the tyranny of distance? high speed broadband and the significance of place / Jenny Kennedy, Rowan Wilken, Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold and Mitchell Harrop.