Enhancement of socialization in urban public space through digital media

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Urban public spaces exist with their social benefits in which the community gathers and coheres, involves organizations that are appealing to society, and exchanges experiences with others. Aligned with the digitalization that starts to appear and been practiced on the stage over the last few decades, public spaces so are the experiences within have been affected, and even potentially reconstructed enough to alter human life, perception, and action. In this sense, digital media, which offer various experiences with diverse application methods, have the potential to augment and strengthen the experience of public space with its components. The society participates in digital exhibitions and installations stimulating conversation, witnesses data displaying through screens bringing people together, gain interactive experience through digital media triggering the senses, and establishes a connection with the context utilizing the technologies that are situated in physical public spaces. Examining social activities, that are transformed in the digital era, is important to explore what kind of effects such activities have, in public spaces in primarily defining social dimensions, which also influence physical and meaning dimensions. The study elaborates on examples of diversified digital activities in public spaces for the evaluation of these dimensions enhancing the experience in urban public spaces. In this context, among the properties for the provision of an appealing public space, passive, active engagement, and discovery, gain importance as being the relevant components of digital activities. Categorizing the digital activity types as art, information, games, and group actions the study indicates that participating in digital activities in public urban spaces introduces new ways of socializing in public spaces, thus expanding the scope of publicness for further possibilities.

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Digital activities, Digital media, Public space, Public space experience, Social interaction

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H. Korkut, “Enhancement of socialization in urban public space through digital media,” M.Arch. - Master of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, 2023.