Book contents
- Changing Senses of Place
- Changing Senses of Place
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Climate Change and Ecological Regime Shifts
- Part II Migration, Mobility and Belonging
- Part III Renewable Energy Transitions
- Part IV Nationalism and Competing Territorial Claims
- Part V Urban Change
- Part VI Technological and Legal Transformations
- 19 Electronically Mediated Sense of Place
- 20 A Dynamic View of Local Knowledge and Epistemic Bonds to Place
- 21 Social Media and Experiences of Nature
- Part VII Design and Planning Strategies for Changing Senses of Place
- Part VIII Conclusion
- Index
- References
19 - Electronically Mediated Sense of Place
from Part VI - Technological and Legal Transformations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 July 2021
Book contents
- Changing Senses of Place
- Changing Senses of Place
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Climate Change and Ecological Regime Shifts
- Part II Migration, Mobility and Belonging
- Part III Renewable Energy Transitions
- Part IV Nationalism and Competing Territorial Claims
- Part V Urban Change
- Part VI Technological and Legal Transformations
- 19 Electronically Mediated Sense of Place
- 20 A Dynamic View of Local Knowledge and Epistemic Bonds to Place
- 21 Social Media and Experiences of Nature
- Part VII Design and Planning Strategies for Changing Senses of Place
- Part VIII Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter is an examination of the various ways senses of place have been changed by the development of electronic media since the invention of the telegraph, with particular attention to developments since the invention of the World Wide Web in 1990. Impacts of electronic communications on five aspects of sense of place are considered. Neurological and ontological aspects are largely immune, but individual, social and public aspects are affected in ways that have been variously interpreted as diminishing sense of place by distracting us from our surroundings, or alternatively as enhancing it with rich data about places and increased global awareness. However, as electronic media have become increasingly pervasive, concerns have been raised about their role as agents of corporate power and their role in surveillance of places.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Changing Senses of PlaceNavigating Global Challenges, pp. 247 - 258Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Basso, K. H. (1996) ‘Wisdom sits in places: notes on a western Apache landscape’, in Feld, S. and Basso, K. H. (eds), Senses of Place, Santa Fe, School of American Research Press, pp. 53–90.Google Scholar
Berners-Lee, T. (2017) ‘Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor’, World Wide Web Foundation, 12 March [Online]. Available at https://webfoundation.org/2017/03/web-turns-28-letter/ (accessed 20 February 2020).Google Scholar
Berners-Lee, T. (2019) ‘Contract for the Web: a global plan of action to make our online world safe and empowering for everyone’ [Online]. Available at https://contractfortheweb.org/ (accessed 20 February 2020).Google Scholar
Bischoff, P. (2019) ‘Surveillance camera statistics: which cities have the most CCTV cameras?’, Comparitech [Online]. Available at www.comparitech.com/vpn-privacy/the-worlds-most-surveilled-cities/ (accessed 20 February 2020).Google Scholar
Casey, E. (1993) Getting Back into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World, Bloomington, Indiana University Press.Google Scholar
Casey, E. (1997) The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History, Berkeley, University of California Press.Google Scholar
Casey, E. (2001) ‘Body, self and landscape: a geophilosophical inquiry into the place-world’, in Adams, P. C., Hoelscher, S. and Till, K. E. (eds), Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 403–425.Google Scholar
Evans, L. (2015) Locative Social Media: Place in the Digital Age, New York, Palgrave Macmillan.Google Scholar
Firth, J., Torous, J., Stubbs, B., et al. (2019) ‘The “online brain”: how the Internet may be changing our cognition’, World Psychiatry, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 119–129. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20617Google Scholar
Hu, M. and Chen, R. (2018) ‘A framework for understanding sense of place in an urban design context’, Urban Science, vol. 2, no. 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci2020034Google Scholar
Internet World Stats (2019) ‘World Internet user statistics’ [Online]. Available at www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm (accessed 17 October 2020).Google Scholar
Kleinman, S. (2007) ‘Introduction’, in Kleinman, S. (ed.), Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century, New York, Peter Lang, pp. 1–6.Google Scholar
Lecompte, A. F., Trelohan, M., Gentric, M. and Aquilina, M. (2017) ‘Putting sense of place at the centre of place brand development’, Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 33, nos. 5–6, pp. 400–420. Available at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0267257X.2017.1307872 (accessed 19 October 2020).Google Scholar
Malpas, J. (2018) Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography, 2nd ed., London, Routledge.Google Scholar
Malpas, J. (2019) ‘Foreword: the place of phenomenology and the phenomenology of place’, in Champion, E. (ed.), The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places, London, Routledge, pp. vii–xi.Google Scholar
Massey, D. (1994) Space, Place and Gender, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.Google Scholar
McLuhan, M. (1964) Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 2nd ed., Scarborough, ON, New American Library.Google Scholar
Meyrowitz, J. (1984) No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford, Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Moser, M.-B. and Moser, E. (2011) ‘Crystals of the brain’, EMBO Molecular Medicine, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 69–71. Available at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3377059/ (accessed 20 February 2020).Google Scholar
Nobel Prize (2014) Press release [online]. Available at www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2014/press-release/ (accessed 20 February 2020).Google Scholar
Relph, E. (1997) ‘Sense of place’, in Hanson, S. (ed.), Ten Geographical Ideas that Changed the World, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, pp. 205–226.Google Scholar
Relph, E. (2015) ‘Place and connection’, in Malpas, J. (ed.), The Intelligence of Place: Topographies and Poetics, London, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 177–204.Google Scholar
Ruskin, J. (1856) ‘The moral of landscape’, in Modern Painters, vol. III, London, George Allen (this edition 1904).Google Scholar
Sidewalk Labs (2019) ‘Sidewalk Labs is reimagining cities to improve quality of life’ [online]. Available at www.sidewalklabs.com/ (accessed 20 February 2020).Google Scholar
Sidewalk Toronto (2019) ‘Toronto tomorrow’ [online]. Available at www.sidewalktoronto.ca/ (accessed 20 February 2020).Google Scholar
Sidewalk Toronto (2020) ‘Why we’re no longer pursuing the Quayside Project – and what’s next for Sidewalk Labs’ [online]. Available at https://medium.com/sidewalk-talk/why-were-no-longer-pursuing-the-quayside-project-and-what-s-next-for-sidewalk-labs-9a61de3fee3a (accessed 8 June 2020).Google Scholar
Twenge, J. M. (2017) ‘Have smartphones destroyed a generation?’, The Atlantic, September [Online]. Available at www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/ (accessed 20 February 2020).Google Scholar
Vosoughi, S., Roy, D. and Aral, S. (2018) ‘The spread of true and false news online’, Science, vol. 359, no. 6380, pp. 1146–1151. https://www.doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9559Google Scholar
Webber, M. (1964) ‘The urban place and the non-place urban realm’, in Webber, M. (ed.), Explorations into Urban Structure, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 79–153.Google Scholar
Wellman, B. (2001) ‘Physical place and cyberplace: the rise of personalized networking’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 227–252.Google Scholar
Wilken, R. and Goggin, G. (2014) ‘Locative media: definitions, histories, theories’, in Wilken, R. and Goggin, G. (eds), Locative Media, New York, Routledge, pp. 1–19.Google Scholar
Yan, Y. T. (2019) ‘Smart cities or surveillance: Huawei in Central Asia’, The Diplomat, 7 August [Online]. Available at https://thediplomat.com/2019/08/smart-cities-or-surveillance-huawei-in-central-asia/ (accessed 20 February 2020).Google Scholar
Zuboff, S. (2015) ‘Big other: surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization’, Journal of Information Technology, vol. 30, pp. 75–89.Google Scholar
Zuboff, S. (2019) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, New York, Public Affairs.Google Scholar