Coisas e Coisas
[Panel 1: Technologization of Public Spaces. Thursday, March 10, 2011, 9:15 – 10:45 am]
"Last summer, while having a drink at the cafés of the small seaport where I spent my holidays, clients of various ages were connecting their laptops to the internet and checking their email. I felt as surprised as when, during the first half of the 1990s, in London, I saw passersby talking on the mobile phone. I knew about these technologies but I was not aware of their massive social use, especially in holiday places or out on the street. Such changes take place extremely fast, but they make us think about the technological, social, economic and cultural causes and consequences of those alterations, which is what I do here. In order to understand them, I work concepts such as relation between transportation, communication and culture (Carey, 1992; Packer, 2006; Urry, 2010), networks (Castells, 2002), consuming places (Urry, 2003), contraction of time and space (Virilio, 1995, 1996; Urry, 2003), public and private life (Flichy, 1995), strong and weak bonds (Urry, 2010; Castells, 2002) and cultures of speed, mobility and hypermobility (Urry, 2003, 2010; Vannini, 2009), and their prosthesis, extensions (McLuhan, 1997) and biomechanical additions (Virilio, 1995). The text seeks to understand the relationship between means of communication and transportation in society and stresses the impact of new electronic devices on people’s lives and, especially, on their holidays and free time. [...]".
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- Tecnologias
Por volta de 1840, a Europa presenciou transformações excepcionais nos transportes e comunicações. A modernidade incluiu o caminho de ferro e o serviço oceânico de navios a vapor, nos transortes, e o sistema postal nacional, os serviços comerciais...
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Com a música do sextexto Almost 6. Paul Virilio e John Urry continuam no meu caminho, a que se juntou Manuel Castells, todos à espera de Philip Vannini. Michel Foucault e Georg Simmel espreitaram mas regressaram aos seus sítios. Aproximam-se as...
- Sobre O EspaÇo
Se Virilio (1996: 34) vê, no comboio de grande velocidade, uma redução de tempo e de espaço, cujo resultado é a perda da paisagem, para Urry (1995/2003: 23) a compressão do tempo e do espaço geram fragmentação e desorientação, no que chama...
- Call For Papers Media And Transport Panel (scms New Orleans): March 2011
This panel seeks papers that interrogate the relationship between media and transport and attempt to rethink media through the lens of transportation and vice versa. At a metaphoric level, transport indicates carrying away, in the sense of physical mobility,...
Coisas e Coisas
MEDIA, TRANSPORTATION AND SOCIETY
[Panel 1: Technologization of Public Spaces. Thursday, March 10, 2011, 9:15 – 10:45 am]
"Last summer, while having a drink at the cafés of the small seaport where I spent my holidays, clients of various ages were connecting their laptops to the internet and checking their email. I felt as surprised as when, during the first half of the 1990s, in London, I saw passersby talking on the mobile phone. I knew about these technologies but I was not aware of their massive social use, especially in holiday places or out on the street. Such changes take place extremely fast, but they make us think about the technological, social, economic and cultural causes and consequences of those alterations, which is what I do here. In order to understand them, I work concepts such as relation between transportation, communication and culture (Carey, 1992; Packer, 2006; Urry, 2010), networks (Castells, 2002), consuming places (Urry, 2003), contraction of time and space (Virilio, 1995, 1996; Urry, 2003), public and private life (Flichy, 1995), strong and weak bonds (Urry, 2010; Castells, 2002) and cultures of speed, mobility and hypermobility (Urry, 2003, 2010; Vannini, 2009), and their prosthesis, extensions (McLuhan, 1997) and biomechanical additions (Virilio, 1995). The text seeks to understand the relationship between means of communication and transportation in society and stresses the impact of new electronic devices on people’s lives and, especially, on their holidays and free time. [...]".
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- Call For Papers, Special Issue - Blogging Across Borders And Cultures
Submission Due Date: November 15, 2010 Special Issue On: Blogging across Borders and Cultures Introduction: Since the late 1990s, Internet users have utilized blogs as one of the most ubiquitous communication tools to connect with audiences worldwide....
- Tecnologias
Por volta de 1840, a Europa presenciou transformações excepcionais nos transportes e comunicações. A modernidade incluiu o caminho de ferro e o serviço oceânico de navios a vapor, nos transortes, e o sistema postal nacional, os serviços comerciais...
- Jardim Do Torel
Com a música do sextexto Almost 6. Paul Virilio e John Urry continuam no meu caminho, a que se juntou Manuel Castells, todos à espera de Philip Vannini. Michel Foucault e Georg Simmel espreitaram mas regressaram aos seus sítios. Aproximam-se as...
- Sobre O EspaÇo
Se Virilio (1996: 34) vê, no comboio de grande velocidade, uma redução de tempo e de espaço, cujo resultado é a perda da paisagem, para Urry (1995/2003: 23) a compressão do tempo e do espaço geram fragmentação e desorientação, no que chama...
- Call For Papers Media And Transport Panel (scms New Orleans): March 2011
This panel seeks papers that interrogate the relationship between media and transport and attempt to rethink media through the lens of transportation and vice versa. At a metaphoric level, transport indicates carrying away, in the sense of physical mobility,...