The Digital Crowd

IF 1.1 0 ARCHITECTURE

Architecture and Culture Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.1080/20507828.2020.1794419

Hazem Ziada

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract Although digital technologies are implicated in intrusive surveillance and social fragmentation, their widespread uses in recent political protests demonstrate their potentials to support intense forms of collective life. Building on Mark Hansen’s new-media philosophy, this paper explores digital crowds as an intensified form of a contemporary phenomenon: the intertwinement of digital media with social life. Enveloped in technospheres of data-rich devices, the digital crowd forms hybrids with its environment of distributed digital intelligence, what Hansen conceptualizes as System-Environment Hybrids. Sampling the visible trace of such SEHs on Instagram, the article posits that their impacts on crowd formations signal a distinct form of collective life. It argues that the hybrid intensifies the affect and de-individuation processes of conventional pre-digital crowds, and extends such effects well beyond crowd events into persistent online environments of insatiable exchange. The paper speculates that intensified and persistent affect transform the emotional geography of the city.

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数字人群

摘要尽管数字技术与侵入性监视和社会分裂有关，但它们在最近的政治抗议活动中的广泛使用表明了它们支持激烈集体生活形式的潜力。基于马克·汉森的新媒体哲学，本文探讨了数字人群作为一种当代现象的强化形式：数字媒体与社会生活的交织。在数据丰富设备的技术领域中，数字人群与其分布式数字智能环境形成了混合体，汉森将其概念化为系统环境混合体。这篇文章在Instagram上采样了这些SEH的可见痕迹，认为它们对人群形成的影响标志着一种独特的集体生活形式。它认为，这种混合强化了传统的前数字人群的影响和去个性化过程，并将这种影响远远超出了人群事件，扩展到了永不满足的交流的持续在线环境中。本文推测，强化和持续的情感影响改变了城市的情感地理。

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