[Air-L] Article/literature on "conceptions of space/place" for teaching

[kalev leetaru]

Daniel, though it approaches the topic from a more LIS standpoint, you
might find my guest post on the Library of Congress blog, out this morning,
of interest for pointers on the geography of text and sensor-based vs
textual conceptions of space:

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2015/04/mapping-words-lessons-learned-from-a-decade-of-exploring-the-geography-of-text/

It surveys many of my works over the past decade on this, especially around
how strongly location is used as a scaffolding across disciplines and
media.  My paper on the geography of Twitter may also be of interest re
some of the surprises both in the impact of location on communication in
broadcast media and how location is expressed in mixed-modality
environments:

http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4366/3654

~K


On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Daniel Kunzelmann <
kunzelmann.daniel at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Anyone wants to share their *must-read* with me?
>
> I'm teaching an undergraduate course this upcoming semester in the field
> of *digital anthropology*. The seminars title: "*Place. Culture.
> Cybersp_ace.* Cultural and Social Anthropological conceptions of
> space/place ["Raum"] in the context of digital transformations." (the
> German title is a bit difficult to translate, because "Raum" seems to have
> a wider notion).
>
> Together with my students I want to discuss *how
> digitalization/digitization changes todays places/spaces and our
> conceptions of those (physical, social, political, urban, hybrid, etc.)*.
> By "digitalization/digitization" I mean the empirical - material and
> symbolic - phenomena, not the concept (e.g. locative media-in-use, digital
> infrastructures, social media, etc.). Using theoretical texts, I want them
> to acquire *knowledge on the key concepts of "space" and/or "place".* How
> can we think space and/or place? And how can we apply such concepts in
> order to better understand todays digital developments in many spheres of
> (everday) life?
>
> My idea would be to teach *two types of concepts*:
>
> a.) *"new"* Cultural and Social Anthropological concepts and theories of
> space/place that *explicitly talk about and refer to digital phenomena.*
> b.) *"classical"* ones that do *NOT explicitly talk about these issues*,
> but that you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
>
> I'd be very happy if you would share your knowledge and insights with me
> and my students :-)
>
> Wishing you a happy Eastern from stormy Munich,
> Daniel
>
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