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Methamphetamine use is associated with high levels of depressive symptoms in adolescents and young adults in Rural Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
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Screen Dance: Interfacing Culture and History in the Urban Space
Get PDFYarra Yarra, a Kulin nation meeting place pre-contact, is now the site of this metropolis called Melbourne, a grid overlaid on the landscape, a vertical convergence of glass, steel and network infrastructure. To negotiate this urban space is to conduct the rather colonial act of mapping: marking the screen, meeting on the screen and ultimately documenting via the screen.
Long a contested space of conflicting and complimentary power structures, the contemporary urban city – as noted by Malcolm McCullough (2013) and William Gibson (2000) – have become intensely mediated sites of production that blend commercial and historical traditions of place and community. This is occurring in a variety of settings via the physical mediated body and the augmentation provided by the virtual media object. While personal, civic and corporate data certainly converge in the smart city so do the power flows of geology, culture and identity. These flows are informed by the narrative contexts given to them by a city’s inhabitants both past and present.
Screen Dance, is a collaborative research project looking at the design and flow of screen-based information in the Melbourne CBD and how this links back - figuratively and literally - with the area's Indigenous and environmental heritage. By considering the rapidly approaching Augmented Reality developments in the areas of advertising, public data governance and information privacy, we question how this new virtual geography might be managed
