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Urban Space and Cyberspace: Urban Environment in the Age of Media and Information Technology
2002
International Journal of Japanese Sociology
Often these elements are regarded as postmodern phenomena, yet it is of interest to explore Disneylandization and the emergence of the cybercity as the latest versions of the modern urban transformation ...
The semantic emptiness, and expectations and desires for a sense of "placeness" in contemporary society are the preconditions of both phenomena. ...
In other words, the city is a medium that mediates social communications and integrates communities into a social network of a higher order. ...
doi:10.1111/1475-6781.00014
fatcat:foyr73ry3nh5taira7zpi362f4
4. Atmospheres of Communication
[chapter]
2010
The Wireless Spectrum
'When we are talking about a "new urbanism," Flusser writes, 'it is more useful to construct the image of the city as a fi eld of fl ections' (323). ...
The technological medium operates as a charged electrical environment that informs how urban spaces and publics emerge. ...
doi:10.3138/9781442698635-005
fatcat:73vyzv2nerdm5kpmrgdtltybju
A Modified Algorithm to Enhance Vanet Performance
2019
Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University
Enhancing and finding a modified protocol of routing for this type of networks is a clear difficulty because these are self-managed, distributed, and large networks. ...
As an illustrative case, it exhibited that, by including new segments that make use of this information, the overhead of the traditional urban highway can be diminished liberally with no imperative execution ...
It gives that the (M) part goes about as a message silencer: the (P) framework enables a couple of messages to be re-communicated by vehicles which have a comparable message in a short time period beforehand ...
doi:10.35741/issn.0258-2724.54.4.13
fatcat:7g5ntfhhnfer3p44fb6er4lvmm
Aladdin: Augmenting Urban Environments with Local Area Linked Data-Casting
[article]
2011
arXiv
pre-print
When combined with data retrieved from the Web, Aladdin can enable a new generation of micro-location-aware mobile applications and services. ...
This paper proposes Aladdin, an infrastructure for highly localised broadcast of Linked Data via radio waves. ...
In addition, the notion of an urban environment with many beacons broadcasting messages offers many opportunities for misuse, with Aladdin spam a conceivable possibility. ...
arXiv:1110.4624v1
fatcat:t7inwukqdbbh7msggx3j3q4d34
Ph.D. Thesis Abstract - In-Transit Televisions: Productive Patterns and Urban Imageries of Mobility
2022
Cinema & Cie
) has progressively affected the urban mediascape, posing new challenges for the design of public infrastructures. ...
As a result, transportation facilities seem nowadays to be characterized by a combination of news stream, recorded image loops, audio announcements, advertisement, multi-screen live relays which became ...
as a last-mile medium, go-TV appears to work as a window on the travelling habits of thousands of daily passengers as well as enpassant spectators, generating and reflecting a particular experience of ...
doi:10.54103/2036-461x/17981
fatcat:at6hiyqiffa6zkjh3iajc2stnm
Political critique in Madrid's street art scene: from the late '90s until now
2021
Communication & Society
The aim of this paper is to explore the political messages painted on Madrid's walls by urban artists from the beginning of this artistic and political movement (the end of the 1990s) to the present day ...
This descriptive and documentary approach was followed while keeping in mind that a wall is a public channel open to all and an outstanding method for expressing any political opinion with the greatest ...
As a result, this search has aided the development of artistic creation as a tool for action and social penetration, as well as political communication (Pérez Rubio, 2013) . ...
doi:10.15581/003.34.2.387-401
fatcat:cqd6hl2m4ndmxcafig2jaob3me
An Efficient Content Delivery Infrastructure Leveraging the Public Transportation Network
2016
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems - MSWiM '16
This paper presents a content delivery infrastructure relying on off-the-shelf technology and the public transportation network (PTN) aimed at relieving the wireless bandwidth crunch in urban centers. ...
Our solution proposes installing WiFi access points on selected public bus stations and buses and using the latter as data mules, creating a delay tolerant network capable of carrying content users can ...
Relay nodes, such as the station S3, linearly combine sets of messages into a new network coded message (i.e. encode). ...
doi:10.1145/2988287.2989152
dblp:conf/mswim/SuJJP16
fatcat:h7wybowqhzed5lqa2qawnx7eg4
Curating Massive Media
2015
Journal of Curatorial Studies
The European Union's media art initiative Connecting Cities and New York-based Streaming Museum are two recent examples of curatorial models that operate through large, networked, digital displays. ...
By investigating the confluence of exhibition making, public art and urban experience, this article explores the relationship between spectacle and criticality with respect to shifting notions of space ...
Since 2007, PAL has focused on media-based art in the urban context that explores the potential for urban screens and media facades to act as communicative beacons and transfer points between citizens ...
doi:10.1386/jcs.4.2.238_1
fatcat:wjd7tnwqerhmpm2s7fahdpytvm
The Written Park: Reading Multiple Urban Park Subjectivities Through Signage, Writing, and Graffiti
2019
Space and Culture
Urban parkland is a quintessential form of public space. ...
Through coding the messages, material qualities, and meanings in 784 signs, qualitative analysis of graffiti in parks, triangulated with ethnographic field notes, we identify and discuss what sort of urban ...
Thank you to Nate Gabriel who provided a review of an earlier draft of this article. ...
doi:10.1177/1206331218820789
fatcat:dyd5l4qr3fbufkhwznhsroxur4
More Than Wires, Pipes and Ducts: Some Lessons from Grassroots Networked Communities and Master-Planned Neighbourhoods
[chapter]
2006
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
We offer recommendations drawn from existing projects that may be applied to this site and to a wider context, and consider some implications for the future selection, deployment and maintenance of community ...
In this paper we review examples of each type of initiative and consider lessons that can be taken forward into new networked neighbourhood initiatives currently being developed. ...
This will have an effect on any network that seeks to be inclusive and providing a medium for all residents of a locality. ...
doi:10.1007/11915034_40
fatcat:z43xn25kuvf4dc7zf7qyyoh2sq
POST-FOLKLORE AS A PHENOMENON OF COMMUNICATIVE INTERNET PRACTICES
[chapter]
2019
CULTURAL AND ARTS STUDIES OF NATIONAL ACADEMY OF CULTURE AND ARTS MANAGEMENT
However, as a qualitatively new segment of the culture, it appears at the end of the XX and especially at the beginning of the XXI century. ...
Internet communication, which today is not only a powerful communicative means but also a sign-symbolic environment, accumulates and translates the senses and values that are relevant to society. ...
In traditional folklore as a communicative system in the issue of information transfer, the myth and interpretation were the primary way and medium that filled the message with symbolic codes that needed ...
doi:10.36059/978-966-397-157-5/54-69
fatcat:n5hfyncitvb5vofnxad5ilieha
Disaster aesthetic: disaster social space in disasterthemed mural
2018
MATEC Web of Conferences
Messages in a mural are delivered through the processing of visual elements embedded with symbols, signs, codes, and meanings. The messages delivered in the mural comprise both verbal and visual. ...
The mural is also expected as a monument that can urge citizens to stay alert to potential disasters. The research methodology is a descriptive-explanative method with a qualitative approach. ...
In general, the mural has a function as a medium to convey ideas or criticisms that artists made for policymakers. ...
doi:10.1051/matecconf/201822901011
fatcat:oouesrornjaqdjzcyht2g63exe
A Systematic Classification Of Routing In Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
2019
International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology
In this vehicles formulate a self-organized network with an aim to provide better traffic safety as well as enhance the travelling comfort for the commuters. ...
Vehicle ad hoc network (VANET) is a promising aspect in intelligent transportation system (ITS) which is getting considerable attention from researchers. ...
Due to controlled beaconing the communication medium is free and can be utilized for delivery of data packets. The approach performs well for both highway and urban scenarios. ...
doi:10.35940/ijeat.f8779.088619
fatcat:ctys3baufvhrddtxbddt37hhf4
Mobile Phone and Short Message Service Appropriation, Usage and Behavioral Issues among University Students
2012
Journal of Social Sciences (New York, N.Y.)
Problem statement: This study aims to explore mobile phone and Short Message Service (SMS) usage among urbanized Malaysian youth. ...
Conclusion/Recommendations: The findings of this study could be beneficial to those exploring mobile phone and SMS adoption and usage pattern in a developing country such as Malaysia. ...
The findings from this study are believed to serve as a knowledge base for other researchers who intend to explore mobile phone and SMS usage and other issues related to their usage among urbanized Malaysian ...
doi:10.3844/jssp.2012.364.371
fatcat:lg43n5ivtfccbofpgt4kvad7nq
A Communications-Oriented Perspective on Traffic Management Systems for Smart Cities: Challenges and Innovative Approaches
2015
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
The growing size of cities and increasing population mobility have determined a rapid increase in the number of vehicles on the roads, which has resulted in many challenges for road traffic management ...
Finally, we discuss some open challenges and present our own vision to develop robust TMSs for future smart cities. ...
GVGrid uses stop signs and highways with constant vehicles distance as prediction indicators for vehicles mobility to enhance messages routing. ...
doi:10.1109/comst.2014.2339817
fatcat:ap7hvhawqrf7zb5noxm4ph5orq
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