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Encounters and Content Sharing in an Urban Village: Reading Texts Through an Archaeological Lens

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Archaeology provides a framework of analysis and interpretation that is useful for disentangling the textual layers of a contemporary lived-in urban space. The producers and readers of texts may include those who planned and developed the site and those who now live, visit, and work there. Some of the social encounters and content sharing between these people may be artificially produced or manufactured in the hope that certain social situations will occur. Others may be serendipitous. With archaeology’s original focus on places that are no longer inhabited, it is often only the remaining artifacts and features of the built environment that form the basis for interpreting the social relationships of past people. Our analysis, however, is framed within a contemporary notion of archaeological artifacts in an urban setting. Unlike an excavation, where the past is revealed through digging into the landscape, the application of landscape archaeology within a present day urban context is necessarily more experiential, visual, and based on recording and analyzing the physical traces of social encounters and relationships between residents and visitors. These physical traces are present within the creative content, and the built and natural elements of the environment. This chapter explores notions of social encounters and content sharing in an urban village by analyzing three different types of texts: the design of the built environment; content produced by residents through a geospatial web application; and, print and online media produced in digital storytelling workshops.

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    Department of Housing & QUT (2007). Kelvin Grove Urban Village (marketing brochure). Brisbane: Department of Housing & Queensland University of Technology.

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Acknowledgments

This research is supported under the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (project number DP0663854). Dr Marcus Foth is the recipient of an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship. Further support has been received from the Queensland Government’s Department of Housing. The authors would like to thank Helen Klaebe, Barbara Adkins, Jaz Choi, Aneta Podkalicka, Angela Button, Julie-Anne Carroll, and Jean Burgess for supporting this research project. The authors specifically thank Mark Bilandzic for developing the HistoryLines web application as part of his internship at QUT in 2007.

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  1. Graduiertenschule, Locating Media / Situierte Medien, Universität Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, Siegen, 57068, Germany

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Garcia, N., Foth, M., Hearn, G. (2009). Encounters and Content Sharing in an Urban Village: Reading Texts Through an Archaeological Lens. In: Willis, K., Roussos, G., Chorianopoulos, K., Struppek, M. (eds) Shared Encounters. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-727-1_11

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