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Chapter 6 focuses on public space—streets, parks, sports arenas, shopping malls, memorials, and museums—as yet another medium in which to read cultural life and values. It explores the different functions and uses of public space—mundane, decorative, and ornamental—and the ways that these spaces code ideology as well as preserve beliefs and traditions. The Companion Website focuses more specifically on the Internet as a public space. The first "Checking Out the Web" activity focuses on the similarities and differences between virtual malls and regular malls. The second activity looks at the ways museums and memorials are represented on the Internet, as well as at some of the sites connected with specific historic events. The third activity looks at the personal (as opposed to corporate or governmental) ways that individuals who maintain their own sites use the Internet as a public space. The final Web activity explores how "iconic" spaces are represented or created on the Internet. The "Visual Culture" and "Mining the Archives" sections provide links to specialty virtual malls, sites on public spaces, and public space organizations.
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