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Communication Seminar Series – New Urban Players: Stratagematic use of media by Banksy and the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement by Prof. Paola Monachesi
2018年1月18日
下午2时30分至下午4时正
中文大学新亚书院人文馆313室
Prof. Paola Monachesi, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
manlokchan@cuhk.edu.hk / Tel: 39437701 (Miss Mandy Chan)
In this talk, I focus on two urban players whose ultimate aim is to regain public space both in the digital and in the urban context: the street artist Banksy and the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. These two apparently very different players in fact present similar characteristics and operate in similar ways: They engage with the “glocal” playground of the city, where digital and physical space are tightly interconnected, using media in stratagematic (playful, shrewd, unorthodox, and improvised) ways to recreate public space, where conflicting views can be confronted, an essential element of democracy. The talk complements current literature on urban activism by highlighting the relevance of the spatial dimension in the emergence of a new public that opposes dominant institutional and corporate actors.
