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TY - JOUR
T1 - Reclaiming public space
T2 - sound and mobile media use by teenagers
AU - O Keeffe, Linda
AU - Kerr, Aphra
N1 - Copyright © 2015 (Linda O Keeffe & Aphra Kerr). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). Available at http://ijoc.org.
PY - 2015/10
Y1 - 2015/10
N2 - This article explores the relationship between teenagers, mobile media, and public spaces in the city. We use a range of qualitative methods, including interviews, sound walks, sound maps, and photography, to explore how teenagers use mobile media to respond to the visual and sonic landscape of a public space in Dublin, Ireland. This space was a “nonplace” for our contemporary participants from which they felt economically, socially, visually, and aurally excluded. They responded by using mobile media to create safe, centripetal, and meaningful spaces. Our findings underline the role that local soundscapes play in understanding the audio and mobile media practices of teenagers in public spaces.
AB - This article explores the relationship between teenagers, mobile media, and public spaces in the city. We use a range of qualitative methods, including interviews, sound walks, sound maps, and photography, to explore how teenagers use mobile media to respond to the visual and sonic landscape of a public space in Dublin, Ireland. This space was a “nonplace” for our contemporary participants from which they felt economically, socially, visually, and aurally excluded. They responded by using mobile media to create safe, centripetal, and meaningful spaces. Our findings underline the role that local soundscapes play in understanding the audio and mobile media practices of teenagers in public spaces.
KW - public space
KW - nonplace
KW - representational space
KW - soundscape
KW - mobility
KW - sound walking
KW - mobile media
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 3562
EP - 3582
JO - International Journal of Communication
JF - International Journal of Communication
SN - 1932-8036
ER -