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15. The HeiURBAN Database: A Brief and Unconventional Position Piece

  • Beatrix Busse
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Abstract

This paper illustrates how the model of urbanity (Busse/Warnke 2015) can be realized from the collection of a variety of data types into a database structure. It is also an attempt to give a hands-on illustration and visualization of the data types that may account for the complexity of urban discursive place-making. These include hitherto neglected formats, such as names for WiFi networks (Service Set Identifiers) or #-Twitter data referring to a particular urban space, such as #Brooklyn. For this, the author draws on the dataset of the heiURBAN database, which stores linguistic and other semiotic data collected in selected neighbourhoods of Brooklyn, New York. Another aim of this paper is to show the subjective bias of the urban data collection process and why it is therefore both difficult and complex to account for the social detail(s) that marks urban discursive place-making mechanism in linear handbook formats.

Abstract

This paper illustrates how the model of urbanity (Busse/Warnke 2015) can be realized from the collection of a variety of data types into a database structure. It is also an attempt to give a hands-on illustration and visualization of the data types that may account for the complexity of urban discursive place-making. These include hitherto neglected formats, such as names for WiFi networks (Service Set Identifiers) or #-Twitter data referring to a particular urban space, such as #Brooklyn. For this, the author draws on the dataset of the heiURBAN database, which stores linguistic and other semiotic data collected in selected neighbourhoods of Brooklyn, New York. Another aim of this paper is to show the subjective bias of the urban data collection process and why it is therefore both difficult and complex to account for the social detail(s) that marks urban discursive place-making mechanism in linear handbook formats.

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