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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00930
- Thesis Title
- Place Making & Navigating The Otherness In Tokyo. Tokyo Heterotopia: A Case Study Of Locative Media Mobile Application.
- Author
- Hoi Ting Yeung
- E-mail
- ting_b1 AT hotmail.com
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- Master's degree in Media Arts Cultures
- Year
- 2020
- Number of Pages
- 100
- University
- University of Lodz
- Thesis Supervisor
- dr hab. Marcin Składanek, dr hab. Blanka Brzozowska
- Supervisor e-mail
- marcin.skladanek@uni.lodz.pl / blanka.brzozowska@uni.lodz.pl
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Philological Faculty
- Copyright Ownership
- Languages Familiar to Author
- URL where full thesis can be found
- apd.uni.lodz.pl/
- Keywords
- Location media, Tokyo 2020, heterotopia, creating digital environments, social integration, randomness, user experience.
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- Contemporary Japan is undergoing a significant transformation from an island country, where the policy of isolationism (SuǒGuó) has been implemented for decades, to the current multicultural society. In connection with the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020, the government announced the invitation of nearly 300,000 foreign employees, whose help is necessary not only in organizing the Olympics, but also later, even in the care of the aging population of Japan. In the light of these social transformations, the idea of "Unity in Diversity" has become one of the three sustainable development goals accompanying Tokyo 2020. The intention of this work is to investigate how the Tokyo Heterotopia mobile tracking app - problematizing the status of Asian immigrants - can encourage users to explore the many locations scattered around Tokyo and engage in social interaction. Based on the theory of location media (Sutko and de Souza e Silva, 2011), the notion of heterotopy (Michel Foucault, 1967) and the perspectives of understanding randomness in the framework of digital media research (Melo, 2018), the work raises the question about the status of the said application as a tool user involvement in recognizing the relationship between what is known and unknown and the relationship between people and specific places, urban spaces.
The research undertaken in the master's thesis is directed at further discussions and the search for effective practices for involving citizens in the creation of digital social integration environments, used to build significantly inclusive cities that meet the criteria of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, proposed by the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in 2019.