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Leisure Geographies of Web 2.0

A Historical and Comparative Analysis

By Payal Arora

To Be Published November 15th 2013 by Routledge – 240 pages

Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

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Positing social networking sites as virtual leisure spaces, this book argues that the properties of these sites are by no means novel, but are rooted in historical, economic, social, and cultural spaces, tied to offline practices, and marked by similar political struggles.

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Payal Arora is Assistant Professor in International Communication and Media at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Name: Leisure Geographies of Web 2.0: A Historical and Comparative Analysis (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: By Payal Arora. Positing social networking sites as virtual leisure spaces, this book argues that the properties of these sites are by no means novel, but are rooted in historical, economic, social, and cultural spaces, tied to offline practices, and marked by similar...
Categories: Technoculture, Leisure, Human Geography, Cyberculture