Online Territories: Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space (Digital Formations)

Online Territories brings key research and writings in the interdisciplinary study of new media and society together to answer questions arising from the ways in which online technologies are currently being envisioned used and experienced. The book offers an up-to-date contextualization of online practices and explores from a variety of perspectives the emergence of new experiences and routines in relation to - and new conceptions of - social space. This volume addresses the need for further research-based contextualization of preexisting theories related with globalization mobility ci tizenship and civic participation socio-spatial dynamics network society and others. Online territories are traced in relation to three distinct and interrelated pathways - the everyday the civic and the public and the transnational translocal - by taking mediation communicative practice and social space as departure points. The book includes an afterword by David Morley.