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Biographical note
Katharine Willis's research over the last decade has explored the effects and implications of digital networks on the experience and design of urban space and place. She has authored and edited over forty publications on these themes. Recent books include: Locative Media: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Media and Locality (co-edited, Transcript Press 2013); Shared Encounters (co-edited, Springer 2010) and Mediacity: situations, practices and encounters (co-edited, Frank and Timme 2009). Katharine Willis trained as an Architect with a Masters in Architecture from the Bartlett, University College London. She has a PHD from the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany where she was an EU Marie Curie Fellow in the MEDIACITY research project. Since 2011 she has been based in the School of Architecture, Design and Environment at University of Plymouth, UK, where she is Associate Professor (Reader) in digital environments.
<p>In a fast changing world of digital media this is a far ranging and insightful work. Distilling the modish from the significant, it takes the reader on a journey through the interweaving of digital media and the fabric of everyday life. Far from the end of geography, it shows the emplacing and entangling of new media as part of the warp and weft of how places are now practised, and the role of places in shaping how new media are used.</p><p><em>Mike Crang, University of Durham, UK </em></p><p>Forget cyberspace as disentangled from real spaces. Willis's book shows (theoretical and empirically) that our contemporary societies are endowed with "Netspaces" - hybrid spaces of places and digital networks. The main contribution of the book is to open, critically and deeply, the digital black boxes, and to examine the invisibility of informational space. Willis claims that Netspaces are creating multiple in-between spaces, changing the way we inhabit our cities.</p><p><em>Andre Lemos, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil</em></p>
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Katharine Willis's research over the last decade has explored the effects and implications of digital networks on the experience and design of urban space and place. She has authored and edited over forty publications on these themes. Recent books include: Locative Media: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Media and Locality (co-edited, Transcript Press 2013); Shared Encounters (co-edited, Springer 2010) and Mediacity: situations, practices and encounters (co-edited, Frank and Timme 2009). Katharine Willis trained as an Architect with a Masters in Architecture from the Bartlett, University College London. She has a PHD from the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany where she was an EU Marie Curie Fellow in the MEDIACITY research project. Since 2011 she has been based in the School of Architecture, Design and Environment at University of Plymouth, UK, where she is Associate Professor (Reader) in digital environments.