April 19, 2010

Forum

Four functions of the Roman forum:
  1. meeting place
  2. market
  3. expression (locus for political discourse)
  4. legitimising (place for symbols-monuments)
Analogy with public networks/telecoms as virtual public spaces

Melody, "Living in the information society: public network as public space."
 [in Time-Space]

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