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Wiring the Streets, Surfing the Square

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With the “Network Society” facilitated by digital technological networks, the physical public realm must be understood as always overlaid with de-spatialized patterns of interaction and connection between people, affecting the constitution of public life in spatial and temporal dimensions. At the same time, digital networks offer alternatives to accustomed physical venues and practices of public life. Differentials in access to these networks introduce a new dimension of inequalities in access to public life, and the public with which one is able to interface in real-time takes on a planetary scale, bringing with it new possibilities as well as new vulnerabilities.

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    Or in one sense the Internet has swallowed-up many of these precedent media and taken their place as the primary channel of entertainment, communication and information-gathering of most members of society.

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    However, this line of critique may be reductive and categorical to an unmerited degree, as personalized devices and apps are also instrumental in facilitating active modes of engagement between people in the co-creation of experiences (as in gaming, geo-hacking and related practices), that can even be critical and productive, as will be discussed in the next section of this book.

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Jachna, T. (2021). Networked. In: Wiring the Streets, Surfing the Square. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66672-9_6

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