Environments and Media Aspects of Moscow Subway

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200907.054How to use a DOI?

Keywords

visual culture, city, Moscow subway, socio-cultural medium, media, environment, immersiveness, interactivity

Abstract

The modern Moscow subway is a complex and multi-structural phenomenon. It’s carrying with pride the architectural heritage of the Soviet era, and today subway and its media environment are in constant formation, the current interest and the modern are layered. Of all the aspects of the life and functioning of the modern subway, we’re focusing on the media environment, the functioning of its historical, educational, entertaining components. In turn, the media environment consists of a conglomerate of aspects that to one degree or another form and expands the functions of the subway as an integral civilizational organism. First of all, we are talking about the information field (primarily visual content), architectural and decorative solutions in its historical and modern components, cultural, educational, and entertainment programs. Elements of media reality are located on horizontal connections; they are not self-sufficient and capable of life because of tight integration into the structure of media reality. The layer of modernity in the Moscow subway is internally ambiguous, is expressed in attempts to illuminate numerous aspects of the life of a city dweller, to integrate interactivity, to increase immersiveness, and even to veil the official visibility of the subway by informal interaction with the passenger.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Violetta Evallyo
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/07
TI  - Environments and Media Aspects of Moscow Subway
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 310
EP  - 314
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200907.054
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200907.054
ID  - Evallyo2020
ER  -