Transit Zones, Locales, and Locations: How Digital Annotations Affect Communication in Public Places

Media and Communication

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Eric Lettkemann¹  Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer¹ 

[1] Institute of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin

关键词: annotation;    civil inattention;    Foursquare;    locative media;    perceived accessibility;    public places;    small talk;    sociability;    socialworlds;    Tabelog;   

DOI  :  10.17645/mac.v9i3.3934

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Cogitatio Press

【 摘 要 】

The article presents an analytical concept, the Constitution of Accessibility through Meaning of Public Places (CAMPP)model. The CAMPP model distinguishes different manifestations of public places according to how they facilitate andrestrict communication between urbanites. It describes public places along two analytical dimensions: their degree of per‐ceived accessibility and the elaboration of knowledge necessary to participate in place‐related activities. Three patternsof communicative interaction result from these dimensions: civil inattention, small talk, and sociability. We employ theCAMPP model as an analytical tool to investigate how digital annotations affect communicative patterns and perceptionsof accessibility of public places. Based on empirical observations and interviews with users of smartphone apps that pro‐vide digital annotations, such as Foursquare City Guide, we observe that digital annotations tend to reflect and reinforceexisting patterns of communication and rarely evoke changes in the perceived accessibility of public places.

【 授权许可】

CC BY