T F Tierney
Tierney is a Berkeley-based urban historian and professor emerita of architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She is a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Architecture at the University of California Berkeley and founding director of URL: Urban Research Lab, UIUC. Recent projects include smart cities, suburbanization, social equity, and sustainable neighborhoods. In 2013, Tierney was a US Delegate to Smart & Digital Cities in France; she was selected for the quality of her research focused on more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable cities.
Tierney is the author of several books including The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of the Networked Society (Routledge 2013), which was a finalist for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Award (2014); Abstract Space: Beneath the Media Surface (Routledge 2007); editor of Intelligent Infrastructure: Zip Cars, Invisible Networks and Urban Transformation (University of Virginia Press 2017); co-editor with Anthony Burke of Network Practice: New Strategies for Architecture + Design (Princeton Architectural Press 2007). Tierney holds a PhD in Architecture in Design Theory & Methods from the University of California Berkeley, a BArch from California College of the Arts. During 2006, she was a predoctoral researcher at the MIT media lab.
Tierney is the author of several books including The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of the Networked Society (Routledge 2013), which was a finalist for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Award (2014); Abstract Space: Beneath the Media Surface (Routledge 2007); editor of Intelligent Infrastructure: Zip Cars, Invisible Networks and Urban Transformation (University of Virginia Press 2017); co-editor with Anthony Burke of Network Practice: New Strategies for Architecture + Design (Princeton Architectural Press 2007). Tierney holds a PhD in Architecture in Design Theory & Methods from the University of California Berkeley, a BArch from California College of the Arts. During 2006, she was a predoctoral researcher at the MIT media lab.
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Documenting how online counterpublics use the Internet to transmit classified photos, mobilize activists, and challenge the status quo, Tierney argues that online activities do not stop in online conversations; they are physically grounded through mobile GPS coordinates which are then transformed into activities in physical space—the street, the plaza, the places where people have traditionally gathered to demonstrate and express their opinions publicly.
Documenting how online counterpublics use the Internet to transmit classified photos, mobilize activists, and challenge the status quo, Tierney argues that online activities do not stop in online conversations; they are physically grounded through mobile GPS coordinates which are then transformed into activities in physical space—the street, the plaza, the places where people have traditionally gathered to demonstrate and express their opinions publicly.