Socioplastics 11919 Streaming Does Not Make a Neighbourhood Public
An event can be widely documented and circulated while losing conditions that shaped its original meaning. MediationBroadcast describes how situated speech, action or observation is selected and formatted for a public that was not present. Duration changes, the camera selects a field, subtitles translate accents and platforms reorganise attention. What circulates can remain valuable evidence while acquiring a different relation to the originating encounter. John Durham Peters’s history of communication examines ideals of transmission and their limits. Nick Couldry studies how media arrangements participate in social order. Their work helps analyse recording as a process of selection and public address. A neighbourhood meeting becomes a video with an editing sequence, caption, access setting and platform context that influence how distant viewers encounter it. A project could preserve a meeting recording alongside its transcript, editing notes, consent conditions and a record of who appears or speaks. Participants could review how their contributions are represented before publication. Researchers would document changes in duration, translation and sequence, then compare the circulated account with the event’s own records and participants’ interpretations. MediationBroadcast gives institutions a method for tracking how local knowledge changes as it moves into public circulation. It helps distinguish the originating encounter from the edited record while showing how each contributes to public understanding. Responsible mediation makes selection, translation and access conditions visible. The marker supports wider circulation while retaining an account of the relations that shaped the material. This record can accompany the broadcast so later viewers understand its provenance, editing choices and conditions of participation. It can also support correction when participants identify a consequential omission or translation issue.
REFERENCES
Couldry, N. and Hepp, A. (2017) The Mediated Construction of Reality. Cambridge: Polity.
Peters, J.D. (1999) Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
CITE AS
Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics, LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid.
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