Mobile City

Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin

Jordan H. Kraemer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2025
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7869-8 (ISBN)

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In Mobile City, Jordan H. 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.

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

Mobile Berlin

Locating Emerging Media

Multiple Mobilities

Multiscalar Publics

Networked National Feelings

Scaling Media Infrastructures

Public Media in Urban Space

Illiberal Spaces

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.1.2025
Zusatzinfo	16 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5017-7869-2 / 1501778692
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-7869-8 / 9781501778698
Zustand	Neuware