Yali Zhang

Project title: 
“Live Streaming”: Transforming Publicly Accessible Space in China

Project outline:
By using living streaming as a handle, the research will probe the Screen Joint Space to find out the architectural character of the space, describe the experiences of its users, and the dynamic of the influences of online streaming created physical accessible public spaces to female users, in Chinese daily public lives.

The discussion of live streams includes three important elements: cyberspace, it’s supporting technology of “going online” and up-to-date ICTs. Compared to physical public space, the public social interaction has already been extensively explored by politics and human geography. The created contemporary public access space has transformed what previously had been understood as private space and co-produced a new type of spatiality connecting the different sites; a new experience of public space in private, changed the behaviour of the private side of the users, influenced the current traditional public spaces and proposed demands of new designed space to respond to the challenges.

The potential benefits from more secure, more accommodating and more easily access open up new opportunities for females to act in public space. The potential benefits from more secure, more accommodating, and more easily access open up new opportunities for females to act in public space. The created publicly accessible space within their private spheres provide the communicating functions with their studying, working, social and entertaining activities. It could compensate for the disadvantages of going to physical public space, which includes the negative social mechanism for women to go out, ingrained gender barriers rooted in Chinese society, the general concerns and lack of security for women to going out.

Primary supervisor: 
Dr Emma Cheatle

Co-supervisor: 
Dr Luis Hernan

Date started: 31/10/2018