Browsing by Subject "media space"

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Converging media spaces: introducing an emergent field of studies
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2012) Kopecka-Piech, Katarzyna
Along with the development of and widespread access to mobile technologies - smartphones, tablets, notebooks, GPS, Wi-Fi, RFID technologies as well as the growing number and diversity of media located in the city, such as urban screens and façades, interactive billboards and installations, media users' relationships with urban spaces has become more sophisticated. Converging media spaces emerge from the complex relations between devices, content, as well as business and users' daily activities in urban spaces. These spaces conceptualized as processes or rather events based on users' experiences allow us to indicate the emerging <i>multiplied places</i>. Converging media spaces emerge in multilaterally mediatized cities and mobile media urbanization - of which interactive maps are the best example. All of these processes take place in the context of blurring boundaries and the merging of daily activities. The analysis presented below was based on materials gathered in New York City in November 2010 by the researcher as a foreign observer and were supplemented by materials from different internet sources collected after the visit (articles, films, photos). The analysis includes the characteristics of physical (material) and virtual (digital) spaces. Furthermore, it pays attention to the meaning of emerging <i>in-betweens</i>. The cultural implications of widgets, switching and overlaying are also introduced.
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Media infiltration - urban media in space and time
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2013) Kopecka-Piech, Katarzyna
The article examines relations between new media and the city in spatial and temporal dimensions. A process of media infiltration is analyzed using several examples and illustrations. Spatial infiltration is characterized by a created typology of physical, virtual and augmented media infiltration. It describes some of the processes of personal and social semiotization, as well as visibility, invisibility and quasi-visibility of media elements as typical features of media infiltration. The reflection on this leads to an explanation of complex relations between spatial infiltration and hybrid time emerging from new media usage. Tempo, rhythm and acceleration represent categories of the complex relations between mobility, temporality and spatiality. The article analytically explores creative, social and technological possibilities of new urban media and mediated practices, rather than indicating the critical implications of them.