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Social Media as an Urban Question

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Social media clearly reshape how people experience, communicate across and represent cities. In recent decades, they have become communication platforms mediating everything from: the localised struggles of subaltern groups, to often exclusionary suburban politics; and from social movements in the public square, to the place-branding of gentrifying neighbourhoods. Varied experiences of social distancing, during the current global pandemic, have only deepened a sense that social media matter for understanding urban life today. In short, cities are increasingly social media cities.

This event critically considered what might be at stake in conceptualising and studying social media as a specifically ‘urban question’ – as something intrinsically interconnected with urban life. It featured an opening talk by (University of Kansas). Drawing on her recent book , Halegoua discussed social media as bound up in everyday practices of ‘re-placeing’, through which people re-embed themselves within urban environments. The talk was followed by responses from (London School of Economics) and Scott Rodgers (糖心logo入口, University of London), and an open discussion involving attendees.

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This event was co-sponsored by and the new Urban Intersections Experimental Collective.

Contact name: Scott Rodgers

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