Academic literature on the topic 'Digital practices, chronotope'

The complex conditions of urban places render it difficult to identify and perceive their multivariate aesthetic characters. The question examined herein is in which ways digital media like Augmented Reality (AR) can facilitate a more comprehensive aesthetic appreciation of a place by individuals, enhance their overall experience and allow them to recognize the aesthetic distinctiveness of places that may be phenomenologically dense with aesthetics, memory, meaning, legibility. The framework proposed is founded on the inherent power of novels as chronotopes of potential dialogical experiences and on four characteristic strategies of AR.Narrative chronotope singularities are fundamental sources for understanding the collective, cultural, historical, social and spatial practices, leading to an understanding of urban environments. So the first step is to extract narrative chronotope analysis content from a novel’s urban substance (buildings, roads, squares), characters, plot and sequence of events. The second step involves a three-dimensional re-creation of urban heritage components. Finally, the AR media is interwoven with the novels based on four strategies: reinforcement of aspects of real-world urban places by digitally overlaying the novel’s setting; recontextualization to achieve the semantic transformation of places as the novel’s significance and meanings are revealed; remembrance by facilitating the emergence of diverse identities and memories; and re-embodiment through achieving a deeper understanding and re-interconnectedness with the aesthetic aspects of urban places.Augmented narrative descriptions restore harmony between body-mind-environment and fiction while ensuring that different times, places and psychological situations coincide. The proposed novel-based digitally-mediated interaction could provide a shift that leads to the embodiment, enhancement and re-conceptualization of the diverse aesthetic dimensions of constructs such as ‘heritage monuments’, ‘local community’, ‘public place’, etc.Article received: April 2, 2019; Article accepted: July 6, 2019; Published online: October 15, 2019; Review articleHow to cite this article: Makris, Dimitris and Maria Moira. "Augmented Entanglement of Narrative Chronotopes and Urban Territories." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 20 (2019): 87-96. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i20.335

Drawing upon previous theoretical and practical work in historical and qualitative applications of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), this paper, in Giles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's terminology, conceptualizes GIS as ‘an abstract machine’ which plays a ‘piloting role’ which does not ‘function to represent’ something real, but rather ‘constructs a real which is yet to come.’ To illustrate this digital humanities mapping methodology, the essay examines Irish writer Patrick Kavanagh's novel The Green Fool (1938) and epic poem The Great Hunger (1946) and their respective contrasting topophilic and topophobic renderings of landscape, identity and sense of place under the lens M.M. Bakhtin's ‘Historical Poetics’ (chronotope) to illuminate GIS's ability to engage in spatio-discursive visualization and analysis. The conceptualizations and practices discussed in this paper reconsider GIS software/hardware/techniques as a means to engage subjects of concern to literary and cultural studies commensurate with the recent strong interest in the geographical and spatial dimensions of these cognate areas.

Abstract This article discusses the intersection of language choice, identity and online political activism in the context of the 2011 Syrian uprising by bringing together the notions of entextualization and chronotopes. The data is drawn from a longitudinal analysis of two Syrian dissidents’ Facebook pages between 2010 and 2012 as part of a study of Syrian dissidents’ digital practices. Through an analysis of their status updates and their friends’ comments, I show how the repertoire of these two Syrian dissidents changed abruptly with the onset of the 2011 uprising. The shift in repertoire underlies the emergence of distinct chronotopic identities, through which both subjects re-positioned themselves vis-à-vis the sociopolitical context: cosmopolitan identities before and dissident identities after the uprising. The article contributes to the study of chronotopic identities by showing how processes of entextualization are chronotopically informed, particularly in a context of socio-political upheaval. Additionally, it sheds further light on the role of technology in social and political change.

RESUMO: A mobilidade tecnológico-digital tem possibilitado a ressignificação de práticas sociais que, deslocadas para tempos-espaços outros, trazem à tona uma diversidade de suportes e gêneros – geralmente híbridos em sua natureza. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar duas postagens de redes sociais públicas sustentadas pelo Facebook, a fim de estabelecer possíveis diálogos entre os conceitos de cronotopo e arquitetônica (como eixo articulador de enunciados). Adota-se como metodologia a análise dialógica de discursos com base nas teorizações propostas por Bakhtin (1981b; 1998[1975], 2006[1929]), aportadas por uma visão pluralista e translíngue das linguagens visibilizadas nos dados, e propõe-se cogitar sua interface com a educação linguística crítica. A partir de Recuero (2009), entende-se que as redes sociais se configuram como “metáfora” das relações estabelecidas por seus participantes, sendo o Facebook um dos sistemas que apoiam essas redes. Conclui-se que, para estabelecer suas conexões, os participantes das redes sociais lançam mão da multimodalidade e multissemioticidade ao construir, curtir e compartilhar textos/enunciados permeados pela pluralidade cultural, refletindo-a e refratando-a. Por conseguinte, observa-se que os letramentos contemporâneos são constituintes de e constituídos por essas práticas, manifestando diferentes e múltiplos letramentos, (inter)conectados por hiperinterações, configurando um novo ethos. Os interlocutores observados se permitem (re)produzir e circular textos/enunciados, engajando-se discursivamente para construir sentidos compartilhados contextualmente e apontando, por vezes, para o translinguismo e suas manifestações.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: tecnologias digitais; redes sociais; educação linguística crítica; arquitetônica; translinguismo. ABSTRACT:The digital-technologic mobility has resignified social practices which – being re-located to other time-space frames – bring about a myriad of apparatus and genres, usually hybrid in its birth. The objective of this paper is to analyze two posts published in public social networks supported by Facebook, aiming at establishing possible dialogues between the concepts of chronotope and architectonic (as an articulating axis of utterances). We take as methodology a dialogic discourse analysis, based on Bakhtin´s proposed ideas (1981b; 1998[1975], 2006 [1929]). A plural and translingual approach to the languages which outcome from data sustains the analysis which questions its overlapping with critical language education. Recuero (2009) views of social media networks fundaments the understanding that they might be taken as a “metaphor” for the relationships established among their participants and assumes that Facebook takes a role of a system which supports those relations. In order to establish connections, social media participants resort to multimodality and multissemiosis as they construct, “like” and share texts/utterances that are permeated by cultural plurality, both refracting and reflecting it. Thus, contemporary literacies are constituted by as well as they constitute (themselves) those practices, within multiple and diverse literacies which are interconnected by hypertextual interactions, generating a new ethos. Those interlocutors allow themselves to (re) produce and circulate texts, engaging discursively to construct contextually shared meanings and sometimes pointing to translingualism and its manifestations.KEYWORDS: digital Technologies; social media; critical linguistic education; architectonic; translingualism.

This article explores Facebook's role in how Filipino migrants negotiate their diasporic chronotopes, that is, spatio-temporal constructions of their past/homeland and present/hostland. Specifically, focus group and digital ethnographic data with Filipino migrants in Germany are analysed using ethnography and discursive psychology approaches. Findings illustrate how Facebook enables Filipinos to re-enact and challenge past/homeland practices, which in turn help create a more meaningful present/hostland life. Facebook further facilitates the capture of conflicting yet socially consequential chronotopes – or irony chronotopes – that traverse and impact both offline and online dimensions of diaspora relations. Capturing such spatio-temporal interplays in migrant realities through social media provides a nuanced and dialogical view into migrants’ lifeworlds, looks beyond the communication role that social media play therein, and contributes to the digital media and temporal turns in diaspora studies.