Within a digital context in contemporary consumer societies, Curating Digital Lives: Consumer Cultures, Digital Platforms, and Everyday Practices draws on practice theories to explore Chinese urban residents' lived experiences of digital platforms in their ordinary lives, in order to map digital geographies of consumption at micro scales. Using the conception of "curation," this book teases out the engagements of daily practices within different types of digital social media platforms and devices to understand the connections between local cultures and activities in the global development of digital technologies. The empirical discussions in this book address how urban residents curate their digital geographies of consumption in various urban spaces on a daily basis, how urban consumers embrace and resist the digital cultures shaped by online platforms and the data these platforms produce, and the social and environmental impacts generated by the digitalization or platformization of consumption. Through these discussions, Chen Liu provides insights on digitalized and platform-mediated daily practices, including eating in/out, traveling, living with smart home technologies, buying and selling things, and using social media in urban China.

About the Author

Chen Liu is associate professor of cultural geography in the School of Geography and Planning at Sun Yat-sen University.

Reviews

Traversing cultural studies, human geography, and sociology, Chen Liu provides insightful observations of urban Chinese society. Focusing on how digital technologies shape everyday life experiences in urban spaces, this book stands out as one of the pioneering titles to address societal changes in China from such a compelling perspective. It comes highly recommended for fellow scholars and students who are eager to study the digital impact on mediated urban space-making and the lived experiences therein.

-- Altman Yuzhu Peng, University of Warwick



Book Information
ISBN 9781666929997
Author Chen Liu
Format Hardback
Page Count 238
Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 522g
Dimensions(mm) 237mm * 160mm * 19mm