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Straßenverkehr und soziale Sichtbarkeit

Das Massenmedium Straße in Chicago 1900-1930
Nomos,  2018, 393 Pages

ISBN 978-3-8487-4857-0


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The work is part of the series Medien-, Sozial- und Technikgeschichte (Volume 1)
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englischUrban streets function as a mass medium that enables people, groups and (their) issues to become visible in society even in the digital present. This study traces the history of this media dimension of traffic, interaction and communication on the streets by looking at the migrant and media metropolis of Chicago between 1900 and 1930. By examining this specific example of a rapidly growing city, contemporary reformers, writers, journalists and sociologists have considered all elements of street life and street traffic from a media perspective. Their texts, consolidated with photographic material and eye-witness accounts, form the multifaceted microhistorical evidence of how the streets as a sociotechnical setting shaped constellations of views, forms of perception and the behaviour of the participants in its traffic. As a backdrop to the coming together of innumerable (non-)verbal articulations, competing self-images, and the demands of individuals and communities, the streets witnessed and gave rise to stereotyping projections, which in extreme cases could end in violent occurrences like the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.

»ein gelungenes Beispiel für eine historisch-praxeologische Perspektive auf den Straßenraum. Der Autor erweist sich als außerordentlich kreativ in der Quellenauswahl und vermag die vielen verschiedenen Quellentypen zu einem breiten Panorama der Straßenkultur zusammenzufügen.«
Dr. Nicolai Hannig, h-soz-kult.de September 2019

»a very welcome addition to the visual scholarship of urban street life and a rich, thought-provoking walk through the everyday history of Chicago.«
Tiina Männistö-Funk, Technology and Culture 3/2020, 963