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Read moreProtest Organization and the Influence of Media
Today’s fast telecommunication changed the way we overcome distances. For that, we regularly use our cellphones, computers and another unreplaceable item is the internet. The societal organization today wouldn’t be like we know it if the internet would not have been there. Not only our communication changed, a change in the spatial organization was accompanied. “Protest Organization and the Influence of Media” provide two examples how media can change, alter and transform places and spaces.
Do you remember the “Tahrir moment”?
Read moreThe City’s formless Boundaries
Cities are like a magnet. They are growing and are the preferred living place (instead of villages). City life is attracting many people. People are moving into cities. The reasons for that are different. Some are getting attracted by the hard components the cities offer: Job opportunities and close distances for instance. Others are torn towards due to rather soft complements: the vivid city life and the excitement a city is transmitting.
So, now we always said “city”, but what is about the term “the urban”?
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The Mediated Urban 