<p>Traversing cultural studies, human geography, and sociology, Chen Liu provides insightful observations of urban Chinese society. Focusing on how digital technologies shape everyday life experiences in urban spaces, this book stands out as one of the pioneering titles to address societal changes in China from such a compelling perspective. It comes highly recommended for fellow scholars and students who are eager to study the digital impact on mediated urban space-making and the lived experiences therein.</p>

- Altman Yuzhu Peng, University of Warwick,

Within a digital context in contemporary consumer societies, Curating Digital Lives: Consumer Cultures, Digital Platforms, and Everyday Practices draws on practice theories to explore Chinese urban residents’ lived experiences of digital platforms in their ordinary lives, in order to map digital geographies of consumption at micro scales. Using the conception of “curation,” this book teases out the engagements of daily practices within different types of digital social media platforms and devices to understand the connections between local cultures and activities in the global development of digital technologies. The empirical discussions in this book address how urban residents curate their digital geographies of consumption in various urban spaces on a daily basis, how urban consumers embrace and resist the digital cultures shaped by online platforms and the data these platforms produce, and the social and environmental impacts generated by the digitalization or platformization of consumption. Through these discussions, Chen Liu provides insights on digitalized and platform-mediated daily practices, including eating in/out, traveling, living with smart home technologies, buying and selling things, and using social media in urban China.
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This book examines engagements of daily practices on different types of digital platforms and devices to present a local understanding of geographies of consumption in the digital age from a non-Western perspective and to understand the connections between local cultures and activities in the global development of digital technologies.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781666929997
Publisert
2024-05-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Vekt
522 gr
Høyde
237 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
238

Forfatter

Biographical note

Chen Liu is associate professor of cultural geography in the School of Geography and Planning at Sun Yat-sen University.