Germaine R Halegoua
Biographic Data
| ID | 4266853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Germaine R Halegoua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Germaine R |
| FAMILY NAME | Halegoua |
| SIGNATURE | HALEGOUA G R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0800-8042 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Disability and AI in smart cities
Groundtruthing the Digital Twin
More recently, coverage and promotion of urban digital twins within mainstream media outlets, urban and technology focused publications, trade press, and scholarly journals has increased visibility and awareness of these 3D, interactive images as tools for urban management and urban planning. Rose offers compelling theoretical foundations for understanding these types of urban data imaginaries and technologized visions of cities. In this response…
Sensors as media and sensor-mediated communication
This special issue examines mediated communication through the rise of sensors. Sensors are increasingly in the phones we carry, in the cars we drive, and throughout the homes and communities in which we live. In this introduction to the special issue, we define sensor-mediated communication (SMC) and argue the embedded, automatic, and datafied nature of sensors belie the glitches and biases in sensor mechanisms, networks, and infrastructure. The…
Exploring ‘digital placemaking’
This brief essay introduces the special issue on the topic of ‘digital placemaking’ – a concept describing the use of digital media to create a sense of place for oneself and/or others. As a broad framework that encompasses a variety of practices used to create emotional attachments to place through digital media use, digital placemaking can be examined across a variety of domains. The concept acknowledges that, at its core, a drive to create and…
Korean travel selfies as contested placemaking practices
Selfies allow us to exert control over how we are seen and to construct our identity through the people, places, and activities that we imbue with value. The composition of the image, situation, and location photographed indicate aesthetic and ontological choices that reveal cultural values, performances of identity and social position of the person taking the selfie. When read as digital placemaking practices, travel selfies become salient to pr…
Seeing Like a Neighbor
Neighborhoods remain primary units of measurement and empowerment among city planners, and governments ask neighborhood groups to take on more of the work of the “state.” Missing from these discussions of neighborhood expectations is how to effectively foster social capital and sense of community among neighbors and what it means to be a neighbor today. Through interviews with residents in a Lawrence, KS, neighborhood, we asked what makes an idea…
Digital Placemaking
This panel introduces and critically examines the concept of "digital placemaking" as practices that create emotional attachments to place through digital media use. As populations and the texts they produce become increasingly mobile, such practices are proliferating, and a striking array of applications and uses have emerged which exploit the affordances of mobile media to foster an ability to navigate, understand, connect to, and gain a sense …
Smart Cities
Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems. Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles …
Locating Emerging Media
Videogames were one of the earliest ways in which consumers came into contact with digital media. Typically, game history has been told from a North American or Japanese perspective. Central debates have been concerned with what “great men” did (e.g., Ralph Baer and Nolan Bushnell), while a range of foundational stories and markers (the shortage of 100yen coins following the Japanese release of “Space Invaders,” the dumping of “E.T.” cartridges i…
Jumping for Fun? Negotiating Mobility and the Geopolitics of Foursquare
Rather than assume that there is some universal 'right way' to engage social media platforms, we interrogate how the location-based social media practice known as 'jumping' played out on the popular service Foursquare. We use this case to investigate how a 'global' or universal system is constructed with an imagined user in mind, one who enjoys a particular type of mobility and experience of place. Through the analysis of official Foursquare poli…
Can Social Media Save a Neighborhood Organization
Positive discourse around social media and civic engagement inspired a neighborhood association with few members and resources to use these services. They hoped to revive the neighborhood association and attract new and younger members. They received five Facebook ‘likes’ and three Twitter followers out of 550 households. Survey results revealed a mismatch between perceptions of ‘neighborly’ and social media ties and expectations for neighborhood…
Potential and Challenges for Social Media in the Neighborhood Context
Many studies have focused on new media's role in connecting interest-based communities across vast geographic distances; fewer studies have examined how viable social media is as a communication tool within the neighborhood context. This study investigates the ways in which established modes of place-based neighborhood association, connection, and communication coincide or conflict with the perceived affordances of connection and association avai…
The spatial self
As a growing number of social media platforms now include location information from their users, researchers are confronted with new online representations of individuals, social networks, and the places they inhabit. To better understand these representations and their implications, we introduce the concept of the “spatial self”: a theoretical framework encapsulating the process of online self-presentation based on the display of offline physica…
Calling all ‘fiberhoods’
This article examines the promise of transformation and initial outcomes of Google’s ‘Fiber for Communities’ project in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Through a discourse analysis of industry and popular press, press releases, Google’s official blog and YouTube channel, and user-generated content from Kansas City residents from 2010 to 2012, the article highlights the ways in which Google promised to transform the image and signif…
The spatial self
As a growing number of social media platforms now include location information from their users, researchers are confronted with new online representations of individuals, social networks, and the places they inhabit. To better understand these representations and their implications, we introduce the concept of the “spatial self”: a theoretical framework encapsulating the process of online self-presentation based on the display of offline physica…
Seeing Like a Neighbor
Neighborhoods remain primary units of measurement and empowerment among city planners, and governments ask neighborhood groups to take on more of the work of the “state.” Missing from these discussions of neighborhood expectations is how to effectively foster social capital and sense of community among neighbors and what it means to be a neighbor today. Through interviews with residents in a Lawrence, KS, neighborhood, we asked what makes an idea…
Calling all ‘fiberhoods’
This article examines the promise of transformation and initial outcomes of Google’s ‘Fiber for Communities’ project in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Through a discourse analysis of industry and popular press, press releases, Google’s official blog and YouTube channel, and user-generated content from Kansas City residents from 2010 to 2012, the article highlights the ways in which Google promised to transform the image and signif…
Sensors as media and sensor-mediated communication
This special issue examines mediated communication through the rise of sensors. Sensors are increasingly in the phones we carry, in the cars we drive, and throughout the homes and communities in which we live. In this introduction to the special issue, we define sensor-mediated communication (SMC) and argue the embedded, automatic, and datafied nature of sensors belie the glitches and biases in sensor mechanisms, networks, and infrastructure. The…
Jumping for Fun? Negotiating Mobility and the Geopolitics of Foursquare
Rather than assume that there is some universal 'right way' to engage social media platforms, we interrogate how the location-based social media practice known as 'jumping' played out on the popular service Foursquare. We use this case to investigate how a 'global' or universal system is constructed with an imagined user in mind, one who enjoys a particular type of mobility and experience of place. Through the analysis of official Foursquare poli…
Potential and Challenges for Social Media in the Neighborhood Context
Many studies have focused on new media's role in connecting interest-based communities across vast geographic distances; fewer studies have examined how viable social media is as a communication tool within the neighborhood context. This study investigates the ways in which established modes of place-based neighborhood association, connection, and communication coincide or conflict with the perceived affordances of connection and association avai…
The spatial self
As a growing number of social media platforms now include location information from their users, researchers are confronted with new online representations of individuals, social networks, and the places they inhabit. To better understand these representations and their implications, we introduce the concept of the “spatial self”: a theoretical framework encapsulating the process of online self-presentation based on the display of offline physica…
Calling all ‘fiberhoods’
This article examines the promise of transformation and initial outcomes of Google’s ‘Fiber for Communities’ project in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Through a discourse analysis of industry and popular press, press releases, Google’s official blog and YouTube channel, and user-generated content from Kansas City residents from 2010 to 2012, the article highlights the ways in which Google promised to transform the image and signif…
Can Social Media Save a Neighborhood Organization
Positive discourse around social media and civic engagement inspired a neighborhood association with few members and resources to use these services. They hoped to revive the neighborhood association and attract new and younger members. They received five Facebook ‘likes’ and three Twitter followers out of 550 households. Survey results revealed a mismatch between perceptions of ‘neighborly’ and social media ties and expectations for neighborhood…
Locating Emerging Media
Videogames were one of the earliest ways in which consumers came into contact with digital media. Typically, game history has been told from a North American or Japanese perspective. Central debates have been concerned with what “great men” did (e.g., Ralph Baer and Nolan Bushnell), while a range of foundational stories and markers (the shortage of 100yen coins following the Japanese release of “Space Invaders,” the dumping of “E.T.” cartridges i…
Jumping for Fun? Negotiating Mobility and the Geopolitics of Foursquare
Rather than assume that there is some universal 'right way' to engage social media platforms, we interrogate how the location-based social media practice known as 'jumping' played out on the popular service Foursquare. We use this case to investigate how a 'global' or universal system is constructed with an imagined user in mind, one who enjoys a particular type of mobility and experience of place. Through the analysis of official Foursquare poli…
Digital Placemaking
This panel introduces and critically examines the concept of "digital placemaking" as practices that create emotional attachments to place through digital media use. As populations and the texts they produce become increasingly mobile, such practices are proliferating, and a striking array of applications and uses have emerged which exploit the affordances of mobile media to foster an ability to navigate, understand, connect to, and gain a sense …
Smart Cities
Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems. Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles …
Exploring ‘digital placemaking’
This brief essay introduces the special issue on the topic of ‘digital placemaking’ – a concept describing the use of digital media to create a sense of place for oneself and/or others. As a broad framework that encompasses a variety of practices used to create emotional attachments to place through digital media use, digital placemaking can be examined across a variety of domains. The concept acknowledges that, at its core, a drive to create and…
Korean travel selfies as contested placemaking practices
Selfies allow us to exert control over how we are seen and to construct our identity through the people, places, and activities that we imbue with value. The composition of the image, situation, and location photographed indicate aesthetic and ontological choices that reveal cultural values, performances of identity and social position of the person taking the selfie. When read as digital placemaking practices, travel selfies become salient to pr…
Seeing Like a Neighbor
Neighborhoods remain primary units of measurement and empowerment among city planners, and governments ask neighborhood groups to take on more of the work of the “state.” Missing from these discussions of neighborhood expectations is how to effectively foster social capital and sense of community among neighbors and what it means to be a neighbor today. Through interviews with residents in a Lawrence, KS, neighborhood, we asked what makes an idea…
Sensors as media and sensor-mediated communication
This special issue examines mediated communication through the rise of sensors. Sensors are increasingly in the phones we carry, in the cars we drive, and throughout the homes and communities in which we live. In this introduction to the special issue, we define sensor-mediated communication (SMC) and argue the embedded, automatic, and datafied nature of sensors belie the glitches and biases in sensor mechanisms, networks, and infrastructure. The…
Groundtruthing the Digital Twin
More recently, coverage and promotion of urban digital twins within mainstream media outlets, urban and technology focused publications, trade press, and scholarly journals has increased visibility and awareness of these 3D, interactive images as tools for urban management and urban planning. Rose offers compelling theoretical foundations for understanding these types of urban data imaginaries and technologized visions of cities. In this response…
Disability and AI in smart cities
Computer Science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social media (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Internet privacy (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)