...Georgia Lindsay; Mark Sawyer; Nadia Alaily-Mattar Purpose This special issue brings together the work of scholars investigating architecture’s interaction with social media across a broad spectrum of geographical contexts, methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. The aim...

...Fangjie Guo Purpose This research focuses on people’s activities in the Liuhua Clothing Wholesale District in Guangzhou, China. The increasing use of social media in business, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, has created inevitable changes to the way space is utilised. Lockdowns...

...Georgia Lindsay; Mark Sawyer Purpose In this research, we seek to understand the spatially-articulated behaviours of tourists who visit and experience built environments in the social media era. Specifically, we investigate the social practices smartphone-wielding travellers engage in when...

...Nadia Alaily-Mattar; Paul Jones Purpose This paper is concerned with materials developed to represent and communicate state-commissioned spatial experiments on social media. Our objective is to reveal what such materials can do, even before – or whether–the projects they represent are built...

...Tracy Huang; Sophia Maalsen; Joel Fredericks Purpose This paper explores the engagement of architecture and design-related disciplines within the built environment with social media. The study aims to identify key themes, assess the methodologies used and compare the approaches across different...

...Ayman Ahmed Ezzat Othman; Yara Ahmed Maarek Purpose The global economic downturn has greatly impacted the construction industry and architectural design firms (ADFs). Social media, however, provides a strategic avenue to enhance the visibility and resilience of ADFs. This paper aims to develop...

...Nadia Alaily-Mattar; Vincent Baptist; Lukas Legner; Diane Arvanitakis; Alain Thierstein Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to propose a methodology to empirically investigate the longitudinal development of social media content concerning buildings characterized by iconic...