유비쿼터스 시대의 도시공간과 미디어공간의 문화ㆍ정치적 상호작용

Abstract

The urban space always has been not only a center of cumulation ofpeoples and materials, but also influenced largely by development ofinformation technology. At the beginning of 20th century, telephonetechnology has led to rearrange the whole urban space through new spacedivision, and expansion of internet also has changed the character of urbanspace on a large scale at the end of 20th century. Meanwhile, recent beginning of commercialization of ubiquitouscomputing technology has been changing the whole society by emergence ofnew third space("augmented reality") through synchronic connection of twospaces, i.e., physical urban space and electronic cyber space which havebeen separated until now. Such synchronic connection by Wi-bro technologywhich has started to work in the street from March of 2008 for the firsttime in the world, promoted unexpectedly to accelerate new playful forms ofcultural political participation of millions of citizen-netizens at the biggest"Candle Demonstration" which lasted during about 100 days in the summer of 2008. In order to estimate new traits and widths of these large changes, wemust go ahead to connect two different analyses. The one is the analysis ofcontents and meanings of the urban-social changes to be arisen byinformational revolution in connection with the neoliberal globalization. The another is the analysis of cultural form and logic of new cutting-edge digitalmedia which has been pervasive more and more in this century. Until nowthese two analyses has been divided to be made as like as division ofphysical space and cyber space. But, now urban studies and media culturalstudies have to be connected urgently to cooperate in order to catch up newemergent change of reality. Target of this text is to find cultural political implications of newterrain of third space by method of connecting Castels' research of networkedsociety, Harvey's research of globalization of space, Manovich's research ofnew language & logic of digital media to phenomenological analysis of the"Candle Demonstration" of this summer.