Social Media and the Contemporary City

Eric Sauda is a professor of architecture and an adjunct faculty at the Charlotte Vis Center and the School of Data Science UNC Charlotte. His research interests include interactive environments, digitally augmented performance, and social media in architecture and urban settings. Professor Sauda’s work has been published in the Journal of Architecture Education, Journal of American Planning Association, New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture, and Planning Support Science for Smarter Urban Futures. Ginette Wessel is an assistant professor of architecture at Roger Williams University. Her primary research interests include contemporary issues of urban development, with an emphasis on social equity, sustainability, and communication technology. Dr. Wessel’s research has been published in The MIT Press, Journal of American Planning Association, New Media & Society, Journal of Urban Design, and Participatory Urbanisms. Alireza Karduni is a postdoctoral scholar at Northwestern University’s Department of Computer Science. His research connects human computer interaction and computational social sciences. He studies how people interact with social media data under uncertainty. Dr. Karduni’s work has been published across multiple disciplines, in venues such as Transactions in Visualizations and Computer Graphics, Journal of American Planning Association, and Social Media + Society.

1. Introduction 2. Methodology Part 1: Protests 3. Black Lives Matter 4. Hong Kong 5. Women’s March Part 2: Commerce 6. Mobile Food Trucks 7. Iranian Venders 8. Underground Restaurants Part 3: Art & Culture 9. Banksy 10. Burning Man Part 4: Extremism 11. Christchurch 12. Pulse Nightclub 13. Conclusion