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Public Space and the Development of Wireless Media
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Author(s): Alex Lambert (Monash University, Australia), Scott McQuire (University of Melbourne, Australia)and Nikos Papastergiadis (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 21
Source title:
New Approaches, Methods, and Tools in Urban E-Planning
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5999-3.ch010
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Abstract
This chapter builds on research into Australian free Wi-Fi initiatives conducted in late 2012 and early 2013. It tours through a range of global developments in wireless internet delivery, focusing on how these influence the character of public spatiality, participation, and social inclusion. While there have been numerous technical and commercial advances, the authors argue that free public services narrowly focus on constructing public spaces of consumption and spectacle, and valorising public activities through increasingly granular sensor surveillance. The authors offer an expanded conception of what it means to value public space and to participate socially, culturally, and politically in public. The chapter concludes with the concerning gap between small scale projects that experiment with these concepts and the large-scale institutions that ignore them.
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