Virtual Public Space Research Articles

Virtual Public Space in Sketching Community

Virtual Public Space in the sketch community has created by physical distancing during the covid-19 pandemic. The development of the spread of Covid-19, which is experiencing an increase, has changed the physical public space to turn into a virtual public space. Therefore the public space becomes part of the social space for a community, one of which is the sketch community. The sketch community in urban sketchers began to switch to using virtual public space during a pandemic. This study aims to find a pattern from virtual public space in a sketching community that architecture students follow. The method used is the descriptive qualitative method by taking four case studies from communities in Indonesia. According to students, the placemaking pattern of virtual public space from these four communities is necessary and valuable for independent sketching learning.Keywords: community; placemaking; sketching; virtual public space

On the Brink of a Revolution: Architecture, Technologies, and Investments

Architecture as a profession and the understanding of architecture as a field of human creativity and production is now slowly (hopefully) returning to its original mission - to shape physical public space as a communication platform. At the same time, an unprecedented opportunity lies before the field, consisting in making use of the current rapid development of virtual public space, namely virtual (and augmented) reality technologies: this is an opportunity to change the paradigm of architectural design.

Communicative Action and Post-Public Sphere Phenomenon

Post public sphere is a conceptual term which derived from the author to describe the emergence of new public spaces called virtual or digital public spaces. The virtual public space appears together with advances of information technology, which not only transforms the communication space of society, but also disrupts communication patterns that take place in the real world into the virtual world. This is a digital era which marked by disruption in various fields of life, in social, cultural, and economic and political life. One of the symptoms that arise is the disruption of public space from the real world to the virtual or digital space. Virtual space becomes a medium where each individual communicates without being limited by space and time. The post-public sphere refers to the phenomenon of change (disruption) in the public space that has led demos to enter a new communication arena that is different and does not even relate to the old public space. The new communication arena operates in a virtual (digital) world that is radiated by social media such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, including the massive media currently being is the YouTube media. Thus, the presence of various kinds of social media also provides preference for communication spaces for individual citizens to access and disseminate information independently. In the sense of an individualized information on each subject of citizenship.

Sentiment Analysis of Religious Moderation in Virtual Public Spaces during the Covid-19 Pandemic

In Indonesia, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the virtualization of most social and educational activities, including discourse on the dynamics of Islamic education, which is colored by contextual differences in manhaj, ideology, and religious practice. Social media has evolved into a new role as a multicultural public space that reflects the Indonesian people's religious literacy diversity. As a subsystem of national education, Islamic education plays a critical role in internalizing the Indonesian people's competencies. Religious moderation literacy will lead Indonesian people who are multicultural to a more accepting and inclusive attitude while reducing social conflicts. The purpose of this research is to ascertain public sentiment toward religious literacy in Indonesia during the 2020 Covid-19 outbreak. Twitter was chosen as the virtual public space to study in this context because, according to previous research, it is a social media platform widely used by Indonesians to discuss serious topics in education and religion. The researcher employs a type of quantitative exploration as a statistical testing technique. The data collection technique was crawling through open public data associated with Twitter's Application Programming Interface (API). This research generated findings in a word cloud labeling graph containing data on religious moderation participation. The sentiment analysis score obtained is - 0.9183, which is higher than 0.4588 on religious moderation content. The combined score is 0.565, which is higher than 0.333. the results are also contained in a sentiment analysis heat map visualization. The researchers recommend future researchers compare the ratio of religious moderation material on Islamic religious education subjects in online learning.

YOUTUBE SEBAGAI RUANG PUBLIK ALTERNATIF BAGI ANAK MUDA

It is undeniable that social media does bring new euphoria, excitement, and ease to society. A recent mode of social interaction exists to facilitate communication between humans, including the consumption of information and the delivery of political aspirations. The pattern of media consumption by young people in the last 10 years has shifted from conventional media to digital platforms such as Twitter and YouTube. This change has spurred the presence of several Internet-based alternative media, one of which is the Asumsi.co YouTube channel. This study aims to describe how young people perceive the content of Asumsi.co YouTube channel as a virtual public space and how Asumsi.co carries out political literacy through video content uploaded to YouTube. By using a descriptive qualitative approach and data collection methods in the form of semi-structured interviews with several young people selected as informants and document analysis, this study resulted in several findings. First, young people interpret the YouTube channel Asumsi.co as an alternative media capable of presenting political information in a comprehensive, progressive, and representative manner. Second, young people feel that political information presented through the YouTube platform can create a deliberative space that can reduce information uncertainty, misinformation, and as a reference in forming personal political opinions. Third, the informants agreed that the virtual sphere can create alternative public spaces for society in particular.

THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE NEW PUBLIC SPACE THROUGH CHANGING DYNAMICS DURING THE COVID 19

The epidemic process experienced on a global scale, together with the health field in which it emerged, directly affected daily life from education to tourism, from production to consumption. This effect has been so great. Even the process of returning to normal starting from the first half of 2020 has been defined as the new normal. The new normal has changed the individual’s daily life space and boundaries and imposed restrictions on the use of public exteriors from residential interiors. The change in the use of the space has also changed the relations, communication style, and interaction with space and those who use the space. Relationships and interactions established in daily life have started to be realized almost through residences due to the limitations on public space. Education, work, entertainment, commerce has been started distance and digital environment. This situation causes to changes in behaviors and the way they socialize. The change in the way people socialize and lifestyle with the epidemic causes transform in the use of public and private spaces. As the dynamics of the city change, these areas need to rethink the designs and develop creative solutions. Spatial studies on the Covid 19 pandemic process are approached from different aspects and it is seen that the studies are multidimensional. In the study, these different views are analyzed and the paper is focused from a different framework. It is aimed to contribute to the epidemic process by developing suggestions for public space approaches and possibilities. The method of the study is determined as the evaluation of physical and virtual public space through examples in accordance with literature researches and discussions. It is important to develop new perspectives on the impact of the epidemic on urban environments and to understand what the long-term impacts could have on the public sphere. And then, it is aimed to conduct research on the socio-spatial impacts to be developed according to the results of Covid 19 measures. Therefore, within the scope of the study, the effects of the epidemic in urban spaces are tried to be understood. It is discussed how the possibilities of new public spaces occurring in the built environment and virtual environment will change the nature and definition of this concept.

Visualizing Digital Traces for Sustainable Urban Management: Mapping Tourism Activity on the Virtual Public Space

One of the challenges of heritage cities is sustainably balancing mass tourism and the daily life of its residents. Urban policies can modulate the impact of tourism through regulations focusing on areas with outstanding visitor pressure, which must consequently be delimited accurately and objectively. Within a traditionally data-scarce discipline, urban practitioners can currently employ a wide range of tracking technologies, but because of their limitations can also greatly benefit from new sources of data from social media. Using Barcelona as a testbed, a methodology is presented to identify and visualize hot spots of visitor activity using more than a million public geotagged images collected from the Flickr photo-sharing community. Multiple complementary visualization approaches are discussed that are suitable for different scales of analysis, from global to sub-block resolution. The presented methodology is firmly grounded in a well-established spatial statistics framework, adapted to a “big data” environment, to extract knowledge from social media. It is designed to generalize to other urban settings, providing substantial advantages over other surveying methods in terms of cost-efficiency, scalability, and accuracy, while capturing the behavior of a larger number of participants and covering more extensive areas or temporal spans.

The Dynamics of Public Sphere in Social Media: Cybermedia Analysis

Social media use in Indonesian society has increased rapidly. One of the Facebook groups formed by the netizens of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), who actively build virtual discussions, is the NTT Baru Facebook Group with 86,783 followers. This article aims to analyze the public sphere dynamics that occur in this Facebook group. This qualitative approach used cybermedia analysis methods. The results showed that the Facebook group was a forum for NTT netizens to virtually gather and freely discussing public service issues in NTT Province. The Group was a virtual public space for NTT netizens to demonstrate democratic practices to reflect civil society’s increasing control function. The Group’s existence was used as a political communication instrument in building social mobilization and as moral and political support for the governor and deputy governor of NTT, Viktor Laiskodat and Josef Nae Soi.

Sounds of lockdown

Modes of listening tell us a great deal about how Americans are coping with the feelings of the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking online listening culture in which amateur music remixers repurpose known pop songs to produce an effect of loneliness in virtual public spaces, this essay traces the movement of online sound subcultures from late 2010s YouTube into the modes of listening, employed by a much larger viewership on lockdown during the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020. Analyzing the act of listening to empty public spaces online since the inception of a particular family of memes that ran from 2017-2018, the essay showcases how that music subculture prefi gured a wider response to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. Covering the psychological response to pandemic, its manifestations in phenomena, such as grief over the loss of public space as mediated by EarthCam, #StayHomeSounds, and the quieting of neighborhoods and cities, this essay shows how the range of modes in our listening network is evolving at this time. It also responds to how the social and emotional needs that arise during lockdown are met in forms of virtuality we have crafted to connect us to the wider world. Moreover, it emphasizes that virtuality crept into our connection with public space earlier than the pandemic – and that playing with the notion of nostalgia recreationally through online media before the pandemic made us better equipped to handle the pandemic’s isolation, when it came. Showcasing how alienation is at the root of both experiences, it also hypothesizes that mediated communion permits us both to engage with the inevitable loneliness and an ability to deal with it as time goes on.

Changing perceptions and usage of public and pseudo-public spaces in the post-pandemic city: the case of Istanbul

Public space has critical importance for the city and society because it forms a sense of community. The debate on the end of public space, which is ongoing as the privatization in the city rises, moves on to a new phase with the Covid-19 outbreak. Since the perception of public spaces will be a determinant factor in the future of the city, the question arises: How the perception and usage of the public, virtual public and pseudo-public spaces (particularly shopping malls) have been affected by the recent Covid-19 pandemic? The aim of this study is to examine the changing perception and usage of public and pseudo-public spaces during the Covid-19 outbreak in Istanbul, Turkey. Within this scope, an online survey was conducted with 337 participants living in Istanbul between the dates of 1–5 June 2020. With this survey, the change in perceptions and usage of these spaces based on personal, residential and district characteristics were investigated. The findings of the study revealed statistically significant differences between the perceptions and usage of public spaces and pseudo-public spaces before and after the Covid-19 outbreak in terms of personal, residential and district characteristics. According to survey results, there would be a significant decrease in the frequency of possible visits to public places. The outbreak reduces interest in virtual spaces as a leisure activity, but it also increases the interest in virtual spaces as a shopping and meeting/chat platform. In addition, it was determined that the demand for shopping centres and virtual platforms as both before-after-the-outbreak leisure activities decreased significantly as the amount of green space per capita increases. Besides, the diminishing reputations of pseudo-public spaces and the increasing importance of virtual public spaces may be observed from the survey results. The longer the outbreak, the greater its impact on the design and planning of public spaces and pseudo-public spaces. Rather than planning huge and crowded spaces such as big squares and huge malls, there is likely a shift toward planning a large number of small-scale public spaces within walking distance.

PERAN PERPUSTAKAAN DIGITAL DALAM MENCIPTAKAN RUANG PUBLIK (STUDI KASUS PERPUSTAKAAN DIGITAL UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG)

The purpose of this study is to find out how the information age community understands digital public space and how the role of the University of Lampung's digital library in creating virtual public spaces. This research uses descriptive qualitative research methods. This research builds on the critical theory of public space proposed by Jurgen Habermas and Henry Lefebvre. Data collection through literature study and interviews. Data analysis includes three stages namely data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion or verification. Based on the results of the study, it was found that the public space in the information society is interpreted as a space where there is an infinite process of interaction. The role of the University of Lampung's digital library in creating public spaces includes (1) Providing freedom of access to systems and content, (2) giving freedom of expression to users through communication facilities between users and managers (3) Providing equality for anyone to access and utilize digital library applications The University of Lampung (4) has a legal umbrella in managing digital libraries (5) has a shared commitment to turn the University of Lampung's digital library into an ideal public space. Keywords: Digital Library, Public Spaces, Information Society.

INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL NETWORK DEPENDENCY ON PERCEPTION OF PUBLIC SPACE OF THE CITY.

Throughout history, it has always been important for a person to believe in something and be dependent on something (be it a religion, a cult, a group of like-minded people, virtual popularity, rules of video games, etc.). It created a protective effect, gave a sense of involvement (overcoming loneliness) and developed self-confidence. At the same time, this phenomenon turned into emotional dependence and stimulated the person to perform a certain set of actions to get a portion of emotions.At the beginning of the 21st century, over 3 billion people (40% of the population) use virtual public space to communicate with each other [5]. Accordingly, the real public spaces of cities are experiencing decadence. Decadence manifests itself precisely in information that carries space.An individual, moving around the city, is concentrated mainly on himself or in the virtual world in his smartphone. Morover, he is constantly in a hurry and has no time. All the services that he used to apply for here, in this square, are now in his hand and are carried out with one click on the screen. The exchange of emotions and impressions between friends and relatives more and more often takes place in video messages, sound messages, or in chat rooms, using stamped animoji and gifs. The opinion of an authoritative intelligent person is also no longer the subject of a search in a cafe (as in times of “ penny universities”), since more than half of people have a social network profiles and are willing to communicate with you in virtual space. Furthermore, social networks give fast virtual love and attention from completely strangers, something that people have been working on for a long time and which they deserve for years in real life. A successful photo or text and commenting on it, cause an emotional “pat”, which physiologicaly can replace hugs and meeting with friends in a public space.In this context, modern city spaces with eternal haste, annoyed people, public transport, buzzing sounds and unpleasant smells cause stress and desire to rather cross them, or again return to virtual space. Public spaces are gradually losing their communicative function.The leading direction of projects that win the European Public Prize for urban space [7] shows that developers in recent years have been interested in transforming historic, locally known public spaces into open-air museums or so-called “Instagram spaces ".Do not forget about the dependence on video games, which in 2018 officially received the status of a mental disorder.Virtual, painted public spaces in video games, drawing inspiration from very real urban spaces, for people suffering from video-gambling addiction, over time replace the physically tangible ones.Caused by changes in technological culture and the emergence of new emotional dependencies, the style of behavior and lifestyle of modern man is also undergoing changes. These changes are neither good nor bad in substance, but rather a natural process of development. Most importantly, from the point of view of the urbanist- architect, is the realization that the appearance, filling and content of public spaces of cities is transforming. Some features are gradually dying out of their own necessity and other appearing, making the public space interesting for a city dweller already with a set of other emotional dependencies.

La alfabetización mediática e informacional en la era del capitalismo de vigilancia

All over the world, democratic systems are facing the radical change of the new ways of citizenship. This is explained by technological advancements and, mainly, by the emergence of a new virtual public space in which game rules are completely different. By introducing the concept of surveillance capitalism, this paper seeks to draw attention to the threats and challenges presented by technological change, while proposing an approach from the educational system, integrating media and information literacy as a civic training to exercise citizens’ rights and freedoms in the new virtual space.

Radio and WhatsApp. Public Space among the Eastern Khanty and the Asiatic Yupik

The article focuses on the virtual public space created in Siberian Indigenous villages via WhatsApp chats and radio communication. These media are breaking boundaries and are creating a unique space for communication. I explore how these media form virtual public space and how they change everyday practices. Both practices create new public space, essential in the context of a lack of real public space.

KOMODIFIKASI BUDAYA ISLAM DALAM MASYARAKAT VIRTUAL

Social media not only makes the user a communicator but can move public space. Social<br />media becomes a forum where fellow users are related and have their own constructions.<br />At this stage social media presents the wearer both individually and in groups. Currently<br />in public spaces, hijab has become an increasingly common sight. Almost no place,<br />circle or institution is not touched by the hijab. The spread of the use of hijab as a<br />fashion trend among young people today is dominated by figures from Dian Pelangi and<br />the Hijabers Community. Hijabers Community, has constructed the meaning of hijab<br />according to their own. There is a shift in the meaning of the veil itself. Headscarves<br />of the past and present have different meanings. In the past wearing a headscarf was<br />a symbol of women’s obedience to the teachings of their religion, while now wearing a<br />headscarf became a lifestyle pattern. Muslim fashion is undergoing a very rapid change<br />and the presence of models that are good looking, stylish, and fashionable. This Hijabers<br />phenomenon can not be separated from the use of social media, namely Instagram as a<br />virtual public space. Through the instagram of Muslim women today the dialogue is their<br />identity through their appearance. Appearances on Instagram contribute to interpreting<br />the discourse about beautiful concepts by Muslim women. Through an existing Instagram<br />account, it becomes a space to show someone in the virtual world. Instagram, which is a<br />friend network, has indirectly formed a virtual community.<br />Keywords: Virtual society, social media, Instagram, the phenomenon of hijabers

Critical Awareness of Media and Teacher Education: An Experience with Colombian ELT Pre-Service Teachers

Media texts are exponentially displayed in physical and virtual public spaces and their impact on humanity is unimaginable. Teachers of all fields face the challenge and the responsibility to educate sensitive humans able to critically consume or produce media messages. English language teachers are no exception. In this paper, the author describes a qualitative research study exploring how a group of Colombian pre-service English teachers developed critical awareness of media as they deconstructed advertisements displayed in the public spaces of their rather rural communities. Findings, conclusions, implications for teacher education, and new questions for further research are presented.

Gerakan Sosial Baru di Ruang Publik Virtual

The era of information technology that has developed dynamically in recent years has brought significant changes in the way to communicate and mobilize the masses. Public spaces that were once confined to a certain space and time, are now eliminated by the latest technology, to give birth to unlimited public space and can be accessed by anyone, anywhere and anytime. Public space is called virtual public space. The sophistication and effectiveness of this virtual public space is increasingly apparent when a new social movement is able to use it. One of the new social movements was called the National Movement for Guards Fatwa (GNPF) of the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI) which was born around the end of 2016. This paper tried to examine the MUI GNPF as a new social movement that managed to make maximum use of virtual public space. Felt until now, a year later. In general, this paper is divided into two. The first part discusses the actions of the MUI's GNPF and a series of Islamic Defending Action. The second part discusses virtual public space which is used as the main means for the GNPF MUI in its movement to mobilize the masses.

Post-Truth, Hoax, dan Religiusitas di Media Sosial

This paper discusses the phenomenon of community religiosity in an era of post-truth that is thick with hoaxes. Post-truth is an era marked by the exclusion of truth and emotion into the motives of action. The rise of internet technology has actually enabled the public to freely convey their ideas, feelings, personal beliefs through social media. Critical discourse method is used to reveal the extent of the impact of hoax for the community while providing alternative solutions. Increasing tensions in the community, religious and community radicalism which are essential are the findings of this paper. Building a social life - diversity that has a mission in the midst of an era like this is very much needed by developing a tradition of religious communities that are aware that real public space cannot be replaced by virtual public space, seeing information based on logic, ethics, and use; examine each information critically, and be open.

El Masculinismo Hetero-Hegemónico Argentino y su Estrategia desde el Ciberactivismo

The present work deals with the cyberactivist masculinist groups in Argentina, analyzed from the cross between gender studies and the Internet. The objective is to identify, visualize and deconstruct the arguments that support the online practices of two hetero-hegemonic groups with presence on the local network: 'United Men' and 'Machos Alfa'. On this aim, a qualitative methodology was used based on the non- participant observation of the virtual public spaces, as well as the discursive analysis of its posts in social network sites. As a result, on the basis of their arguments, we identify the recurrence of three elements linked to feminist discussion topics: gender dysphoria, parental alienation syndrome and the defense of the nuclear family model. We argue that the actions of these groups are oriented both to delegitimizing feminist claims and reacting to the advance of sexual and gender rights. We reflect on the reprivatization of these rights and the reproduction of the dominant capitalist hetero-patriarchal system.

New urban trends towards the use of public space in Turin

<p>What do we mean when we talk about public space? We asked this question, among others about the relationship between urban populations and public spaces, to some people in the context of the National Research Program (PRIN 2009) titled ‘Public Spaces, moving populations and urban renewal programs’. This paper reports part of the outcome of the research done within the local unit of Turin (Italy), which has been developed with a set of interviews to local stakeholders and with a field research in the selected areas of the City Centre and the districts of San Salvario and Barriera di Milano.<br />From the answers of the stakeholders emerged some relevant issues that I analysed through a selected literature about the concept of public space. The result is a sort of catalogue of typical public spaces of the city, as acknowledged by the local stakeholders and by the field research, and analysed through the international literature. The typologies identified are: traditional public spaces, ‘cappuccino’ spaces, weak sociality spaces, new virtual public spaces and the ‘District Houses’, a new type of public space emerging in the city. To identify them, some characteristic pictures of public spaces of Turin and interviews’ pieces are also reported.<br />However, facing this scenario built on the empirical research, we should mind that the conflicting views of public space depend also on the professional and cultural background of the interviewees, which is such fickle data that it cannot be catalogued. So, the catalogue proposed is not exhaustive, but only indicative of the trend about new perspectives on the meaning of public space which emerged through research conducted in the city of Turin.</p>