{"product_id":"mobile-city-jordan-h-kraemer-9781501778704","title":"Mobile City: Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMobile City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Jordan H. Kraemer charts the rise of social media and an emerging \"knowledge\" class in early-2000s Berlin. \u003c\/b\u003eMany young Germans and EU-Ausl?nder (foreigners from other EU countries), attracted to Berlin's vibrant post-unification counterculture, moved to the city just as they began using social media like Facebook and Twitter. Social media and Berlin alike became hip sites for urban, middle-class aspirations, but, as Kraemer accounts, social media users became embroiled in contestations over class mobility and identity, as urban planners and developers remade Berlin into a neoliberal \"creative city.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rise of this creative city involved scale-making projects that fused imaginaries of digital technologies with the expansive impulses of late capital: a vision of world peace and economic cooperation through global interconnection. But in Berlin, scalar transformations were lived out through ordinary practices that reconfigured daily sociality, mobility, and urban space.\u003ci\u003e Mobile City\u003c\/i\u003e explores how digital media practices forged emergent scales like the global and supranational yet were equally complicit in potential European disintegration and illiberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jordan H. Kraemer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501778706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501778704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Jordan H. Kraemer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46216933802239,"sku":"9781501778704","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6e287632-61ae-43e8-bf78-af61a848db0e.jpg?v=1728513802","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mobile-city-jordan-h-kraemer-9781501778704","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}