Jordan H. Kraemer

Mobile City (eBook, ePUB)

Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Mobile City, Jordan Kraemer charts the rise of social media and an emerging "knowledge" class in early 2000s Berlin. Many young Germans and "EU Ausländer" (foreigners from other EU countries), attracted to Berlin's vibrant post-unification counterculture, moved to the city just as they began using social media like Facebook and Twitter. Social media and Berlin alike became hip sites for urban, middle-class aspirations, but, as Kraemer accounts, social media users became embroiled in contestations over class mobility and identity, as urban planners and developers remade Berlin into a neoliberal "creative" city.

The rise of this "creative" city involved scale-making projects that fused imaginaries of digital technologies with the expansive impulses of late capital: a vision of world peace and economic cooperation through global interconnection. But in Berlin, scalar transformations were lived out through ordinary practices that reconfigured daily sociality, mobility, and urban space. Mobile City explores how digital media practices forged emergent scales like the global and supranational yet were equally complicit in potential European disintegration and illiberalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501778711
• Artikelnr.: 72583141

Autorenporträt

Jordan Kraemer is a cultural anthropologist of emerging media and placemaking. She is Director of Research at ADL's Center for Technology and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Mobile Berlin
Locating Emerging Media
Multiple Mobilities
Multiscalar Publics
Networked National Feelings
Scaling Media Infrastructures
Public Media in Urban Space
Illiberal Spaces