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Technology, timespace and the remediation of neighbourhood life (2007)
Journal Article
Crang, M., Crosbie, T., & Graham, S. (2007). Technology, timespace and the remediation of neighbourhood life. Environment and Planning A, 39(10), 2405-2422. https://doi.org/10.1068/a38353

Much theoretical commentary over the last decade addressed the likely impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on urban life works by opposing ‘virtual’ spaces and mediated activities to ‘real’ places. Drawing on recent theorising... Read More about Technology, timespace and the remediation of neighbourhood life.

Sentient cities : ambient intelligence and the politics of urban space (2007)
Journal Article
Crang, M., & Graham, S. (2007). Sentient cities : ambient intelligence and the politics of urban space. Information, Communication and Society, 10(6), 789-817. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180701750991

Increasing amounts of information processing capacity are embedded in the environment around us. The informational landscape is both a repository of data and also increasingly communicates and processes information. No longer confined to desk tops, c... Read More about Sentient cities : ambient intelligence and the politics of urban space.

Doing Ethnographies. (2007)
Book
Crang, M., & Cook, I. (2007). Doing Ethnographies. SAGE Publications

"Doing Ethnographies" is an introductory and applied guide to ethnographic methods. It focuses on those methods - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and video photographic work - that allow us to understand the lived, everyday world... Read More about Doing Ethnographies..

Speed= distance/time : chronotopographies of action (2007)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2007). Speed= distance/time : chronotopographies of action. In R. Hassan, & R. Purser (Eds.), 24/7 : time and temporality in the network society (62-88). Stanford University Press

In this essay I want to begin with some of the grand claims and narratives of changing temporality heralded via information technology. However, I also want to write into these the way changes in time are bound up with changes in space, and that spat... Read More about Speed= distance/time : chronotopographies of action.