Beijing hot, Beijing cool. Issue 1 (1st June 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhang, Peter
• Is Part Of: Explorations in media ecology. Volume 14:Issue 1/2(2015)
• Page Start: 87
• Page End: 95
• Publication Date: 2015-06-01
• Subjects: Communication and culture -- Periodicals; Communication and the arts -- Periodicals; Communication and technology -- Periodicals; Media literacy -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Periodicals; 302.2305
• DOI: 10.1386/eme.14.1-2.87_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1539-7785

Abstract

This article uses McLuhan's notions of hot and cool as heuristics to advance a critique of the city of Beijing as a living and lived material-symbolic complex. It both extends the applicability of these notions and draws attention to their paradoxical coexistence when the analysis becomes specific. The article ends by calling for a cooler Beijing, a society to come.