Description
The widespread adoption of smartphones has led to an explosion of mobile social media data, more than a billion messages per day that continuously track location, content, and time. Social Media in the Contemporary City focuses on the effects of social media on local communities and urban space in a variety of political and economic settings related to social activism, informal economic activity, public art, and global extremism.
The book covers events ranging from Banksy art installations, mobile food trucks, and underground restaurants, to a Black Lives Matter protest, the Christchurch mosque shootings, and the Pulse nightclub shooting. The interplay between urban space, local community, and social media in each case study requires diverse methodologies that are both computational (i.e. machine learning, social network analysis, and natural language processing) and ethnographic (i.e. semi-structured interviews, thematic analysis, and site analysis). The book views social media not as a replacement for the local community or urban space but rather as a translation of the uses and meanings of all three realms.
The book will be of interest to students, researchers, and instructors in a number of disciplines including urban design/planning, media studies, geography, and communications.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
Chapter Two Methodology
Part 1 Protests
Chapter Three Black Lives Matter
Chapter Four Honk Kong
Chapter Five Women’s March
Part 2 Commerce
Chapter Six Mobile Food Trucks
Chapter Seven Iranian Venders (with Guest Author Neda Kardooni)
Chapter Eight Underground Restaurants
Part 3 Art & Culture
Chapter Nine Banksy
Chapter Ten Burning Man
Part 4 Extremism
Chapter Eleven Christchurch
Chapter Twelve Pulse Nightclub
Chapter Thirteen Conclusion
