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Relational Communication Spaces: Infrastructures and Discursive Practices
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Abstract Digital communication technologies, social web platforms, and mobile communication have fundamentally altered the way we communicate publicly. They have also changed our perception of space, thus making a re-calibration of a spatial perspective on public communication necessary. We argue that such a... mehr
Digital communication technologies, social web platforms, and mobile communication have fundamentally altered the way we communicate publicly. They have also changed our perception of space, thus making a re-calibration of a spatial perspective on public communication necessary. We argue that such a new perspective must consider the relational logic of public communication, which stands in stark contrast to the plain territorial notion of space common in communication research. Conceptualising the spatiality of public communication, we draw on Löw’s (2016) sociology of space. Her relational concept of space encourages us to pay more attention to (a) the infrastructural basis of communication, (b) the operations of synthesising the relational communication space through discursive practices, and (c) power relations that determine the accessibility of public communication. Thus, focusing on infrastructures and discursive practices means highlighting crucial socio-material preconditions of public communication and considering the effects of the power relations which are inherent in their spatialisation upon the inclusivity of public communication. This new approach serves a dual purpose: Firstly, it works as an analytical perspective to systematically account for the spatiality of public communication. Secondly, the differentiation between infrastructural spaces and spaces of discursive practices adds explanatory value to the perspective of relational communication spaces.... weniger
Klassifikation
Kommunikationssoziologie, Sprachsoziologie, Soziolinguistik
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Freie Schlagwörter
discursive practices; inclusion; infrastructures; methodological nationalism; networks; public communication; sociology of space; territory
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 28-39
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 9 (2021) 3
Heftthema
Spaces, Places, and Geographies of Public Spheres
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)