Spectacle and Specter: Handling Boxes In Between Digital Content Creation, E-Commerce Advertising, and Last-Mile Delivery

Li, Zizi

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 9June 17, 2024<June 17, 2024

Spectacle and Specter: Handling Boxes In Between Digital Content Creation, E-Commerce Advertising, and Last-Mile Delivery

Zizi Li

Zizi Li examines imagery of stacked boxes in YouTube unboxing videos, reading their spectacular and excessive form as a spectral trace of labouring bodies in the logistics supply chain.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 3June 22, 2018<June 28, 2018

Integrated Spectacle Perpetuation Within Metro China

Emma Hamilton

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Student Voices section on Hong Kong, Shanghai, cities, screens, and spectacle. For more background on …

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 3June 22, 2018<June 28, 2018

Disenchantment of the Spectacle: What Happens When the Lights are Turned Off

Madeline Dippel

In this essay, Madeline Dippel, a student at Indiana University, considers how public screens shape architecture and engagement, particularly when the spectacular lights of the screens are "turned off" creating both sensibilities of enchantment and disenchantment.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 3June 22, 2018<June 28, 2018

The Ordinary vs. The Spectacular

Maggie Farwig

In this essay, Maggie Farwig, a student at Indiana University, considers the ways in which screens manifest in the practices of everyday life in both ordinary and spectacular ways, creating both connections and disconnections and blurring relations between public and private.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 3June 22, 2018<June 28, 2018

Micro to Macro in Hong Kong and Shanghai: How Media Cities View Mega Screens

Celia Grubba

In this essay, Celia Grubba, a student from Indiana University, discusses the ways in which public screens position and constitute China as global and cosmopolitan.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 3June 22, 2018<June 28, 2018

The Screen City and the Absence of Choice

Calvin Badger

In this essay, Calvin Badger, a student at Indiana University, analyzes the extent to which individuals can express agency vis a vis public screens in Shanghai and Hong Kong, considering the ways in which those screens are bound up with relations of power in the city.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 3June 22, 2018<June 28, 2018

The Use of Enchantment in Shanghai and Hong Kong

Naomi Farahan

In this essay, Naomi Farahan, a student at Indiana University, analyzes ways in which public screens in Shanghai and Hong Kong work as forms of enchantment, questioning precisely for whom this enchantment is intended.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 3June 19, 2018<June 28, 2018

Light Wins: Commercial Placemaking and Public Screens

Kyle Winkel

In this essay, Kyle Winkel, a student at Indiana University, considers the ways in which advertisers utilize light art and technology as a way to captivate increasingly desensitized passerby in public screen spectacles in urban Hong Kong.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 3June 13, 2018<June 22, 2018

The Spectacle of Screen Environments

Kyle McClarney

In this essay, Kyle McClarney, a student at Indiana University, explores the ways in which public screens become "integrated spectacles" in their environments in Hong Kong and Shanghai.