Ambient text and the becoming space of writing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebio Diaz Cardona (Social Science Department, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, Queens, NY, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 637-654 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263775816631991 |
| OpenAlex | W2463398812 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article explores the spatial status of written texts in the urban environments of the digital age. I suggest that part of what writing does in and for the urban environment in such context is more productively captured by understanding writing not only as a communication technology but a spatial technology as well. I propose the concept of ambient text to ground my exploration of the spatiality of writing in the observational context of a busy New York City street. I then use Manuel Castells' distinction between the space of places and the space of flows as a useful heuristic to explore theoretically the contribution of writing to contemporary urban social spatiality in the sociotechnical context of the digital age. I argue that writing takes up new spatial roles and can be thought of as an infrastructure that helps the space of places and the space of flows "hook up." The general argument is that our relationship to written texts is being reconfigured by spatial dynamics for which texts in turn do important work. The idea that texts directly produce social space (the becoming space of writing) leads to an incremental, additive view of social space, which is briefly discussed
Argument (complex analysis · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Spatial contextual awareness · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · History · Media, Communication, and Education · Artificial Intelligence
The coming of the book
Making the Social World
Language and the Internet
Local Literacies
Writing Space
Literacy in the New Media Age
The Psychology of Literacy
Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes
The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society
Orality and Literacy
Discourses in Place
Empire and Communications
Code/Space
Reassembling the Social
On Interobjectivity
Placing Words
The Making of Literate Societies
The One-Dimensional Network Society of Manuel Castells
The automatic production of space
Geographies of talk
Imagined communities
The practice of everyday life
Limits of the Local
The Urban Revolution
Manuel Castells
Lines
The Perception of the Environment
Linguistic Landscape and Ethnolinguistic Vitality
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |