Contemporary Publics: Shifting Boundaries in New Media, Technology and Culture

If the twentieth century has been dominated by discussions of the public, public life, and the public sphere, Contemporary Publics argues that, in the twenty-first century, we must complicate the singularity of that paradigm and start thinking of our world in terms of multiple, overlapping, and competing publics. In three distinct streamsùart, media and technology, and the intimate lifeùthis volume offers up the intellectual and political significance of thinking through the plurality of our publics. ôCountering Neoliberal Publics: Screen and Space,ö explores how different artistic practices articulate the challenges and desires of multiple publics. ôMaking and Shaping Publics: Discourse and Technologyö showcases how media shape publics, and how new and emerging publics use these technologies to construct identities. ôCommodifying Public Intimaciesö examines what happens to the notion of the private when intimacies structure publics, move into public spaces, and develop value that can be exchanged and circulated.

• | Author: P. David Marshall, Glenn D'Cruz, Sharyn McDonald, Katja Lee
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Sep 27, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 327 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1137533234
• | ISBN-13: 9781137533234