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Online groups and the use of public space : the case of "hide and seek atIKEA"
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Boffi, Marta Gorrini, Andrea Rainisio, Nicola |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | In an interdisciplinary perspective, this study aims to link theoretical approaches from Cyberpsychology (Wallace, 1999) and Environmental Psychology (Downs, 1970), analyzing the spatial behavior of “online groups” in characteristic physical spaces as shopping centers. For this reason we studied the case of “hide and seek at IKEA”, a grassroot initiative which typically start from online social networks. Using online social networks (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, etc), it is possible to express your own social identity (Turkle, 1996) and build a virtual community, for example through participation in thematic groups (Ellison et al., 2007). Some of the computer mediated communication (CMC) properties, as visual anonymity and isolation (Wallace, 1999), elicit patterns of “middlestage” behavior (Meyrowitz, 1985), characterized by the fusion of private (backstage) and public (on stage) situations. On the other side, malls and shopping centers, far from the early definition of "nonplaces", could be better described as heterotopies (Foucault, 1984), characterized by original forms of spatial use (Uzzell, 1995), based on a redefinition of the traditional boundaries between public and private spaces (Dehaene & De Cauter, 2008). |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://proceedings.envpsych2011.eu/files/doc/287.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
