What is it about?
Social media plays an important role in many people’s daily lives. Through investigation on three cases in the Liuhua Clothing Wholesale Market in Guangzhou China during the Covid-19 pandemic, this research shows how the way people use space has changed.
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Why is it important?
Social media now exists in many people’s everyday lives, but its influence on architecture and space has received insufficient attention. This research interrogates this phenomenon in a clothing wholesale district in China to reflect on the influence. Its significance lies in documenting the spatial implications of dependence on social media and the changes to spatial use in the age of social media.
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This research was conducted during Covid-19 pandemic. Due to the global pandemic, people have changed their ways of living and earning money, so this article is not only an ethnographic research on architecture, but also a vivid record of peoples' everyday life in face of changes.
Fangjie Guo
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This page is a summary of: The mediatisation of space in the age of social media: three cases from the Liuhua Clothing Wholesale Market in China, Archnet-IJAR International Journal of Architectural Research, March 2025, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/arch-06-2024-0236.
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