From social network to urban intervention: On the scenographies of flash mobs and urban swarms

Brejzek, Thea

doi:10.1386/padm.6.1.109_1

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“…Important to Pruesse’s description is the impromptu and maybe ephemeral nature of intervention. Currently, urban interventionism has increasing and diversifying prominence with the label applying to a broad array of activities (Brejzek, 2010; Brisman, 2010; Klanten and Huebner, 2010; Young, 2014a). Alongside street installations by ‘traditional’ artists, urban interventionism can also describe the work of graffiti writers and street artists, impromptu street performers, flash mobbers, parkour runners, mass participation cyclists, urban explorers, people who put up ‘guerrilla stickers’, guerrilla gardeners, guerrilla knitters or other urban activist and artistic groups.…”

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Urban interventionism as a challenge to aesthetic order: Towards an aesthetic criminology

Millie

2016

Crime, Media, Culture

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This article is concerned with ideas of urban order and considers the scope for playing with people's expectations of order. In particular, drawing on criminological, philosophical and urban studies literatures, the article explores the notion of aesthetic order. The power to dictate aesthetic order is highlighted. The example of urban interventionism is used to consider those that challenge an approved aesthetic order. Here the article draws on cultural criminology and visual criminology, with illustrations coming from research in Toronto, Canada. Influenced by Alison Young's (2014a) conceptualisation of 'cities within the city', the article considers how different people using the same space have different or overlapping ways of understanding aesthetic order. Of relevance to criminology, it is contended that people or things that contravene an approved aesthetic order may face banishment and criminalization. It is concluded that respect for such difference is required. An aesthetic criminology is suggested.

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Urban interventionism as a challenge to aesthetic order: Towards an aesthetic criminology

Millie

2016

Crime, Media, Culture

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“…Ultimately, the platform is viewed as fundamentally important to urban life, given its historical utility in being an event-driven space where a community does not have to be consistent but can be formed around particular events, adhoc issues, or happenings affecting an urban population. Furthermore, Twitter use is part of larger processes involving social technologies and the "socially conscious urban citizen" (Foth, 2012, p. x) or, more playfully, through urban flash mobs (Brejzek, 2010).…”

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Pace of Life in Cities and the Emergence of Town Tweeters

Groß

Murthy

Varshney³

2017

Sage Open

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Long-standing results in urban studies have shown correlation of population and population density to a city’s pace of life, empirically tested by examining whether individuals in bigger cities walk faster, spend less time buying stamps, or make greater numbers of telephone calls. Contemporary social media presents a new opportunity to test these hypotheses. This study examines whether users of the social media platform Twitter in larger and denser American cities tweet at a faster rate than their counterparts in smaller and sparser ones. Contrary to how telephony usage and productivity scale superlinearly with city population, the total volume of tweets in cities scales sublinearly. This is similar to the economies of scale in city infrastructures like gas stations. When looking at individuals, however, greater population density is associated with faster tweeting. The discrepancy between the ecological correlation and individual behavior is resolved by noting that larger cities have sublinear growth in the number of active Twitter users. This suggests that there is a more concentrated core of more active users that may serve an information broadcast function for larger cities, an emerging group of “town tweeters” as it were.

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“…The literature related to flash mobs and the development and management of 'flash teams' offers further insight into how the PI field might integrate useful insights from these phenomena. Brejzek (2010) offers the following description of the effects of flash mobs.…”

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“…As a cultural phenomenon, flash mobs have been described as a manifestation of the physicalisation of viral culture (Brejzek 2010;Wasik 2009). What sets this phenomenon apart from other social media applications is the way physical action is enabled and directed through a powerful effect that captures the imagination of the crowd.…”

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The probabilistic innovation theoretical framework

Callaghan

2017

SAJEMS

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Background: Despite technological advances that offer new opportunities for solving societal problems in real time, knowledge management theory development has largely not kept pace with these developments. This article seeks to offer useful insights into how more effective theory development in this area could be enabled.Aim: This article suggests different streams of literature for inclusion into a theoretical framework for an emerging stream of research, termed ‘probabilistic innovation’, which seeks to develop a system of real-time research capability. The objective of this research is therefore to provide a synthesis of a range of diverse literatures, and to provide useful insights into how research enabled by crowdsourced research and development can potentially be used to address serious knowledge problems in real time.Setting: This research suggests that knowledge management theory can provide an anchor for a new stream of research contributing to the development of real-time knowledge problem solving.Methods: This conceptual article seeks to re-conceptualise the problem of real-time research and locate this knowledge problem in relation to a host of rapidly developing streams of literature. In doing so, a novel perspective of societal problem-solving is enabled.Results: An analysis of theory and literature suggests that certain rapidly developing streams of literature might more effectively contribute to societally important real-time research problem solving if these steams are united under a theoretical framework with this goal as its explicit focus.Conclusion: Although the goal of real-time research is as yet not attainable, research that contributes to its attainment may ultimately make an important contribution to society.

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From social network to urban intervention: On the scenographies of flash mobs and urban swarms

Cited by 21 publications

References 1 publication

Urban interventionism as a challenge to aesthetic order: Towards an aesthetic criminology

Urban interventionism as a challenge to aesthetic order: Towards an aesthetic criminology

Pace of Life in Cities and the Emergence of Town Tweeters

The probabilistic innovation theoretical framework

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