Beschreibung
This book addresses the challenges we face as digital platforms increasingly reshape our cities and the everyday spaces of our urban lives. Offering a mix of historical, contemporary and speculative perspectives, it argues that we need a better understanding of the way digital platforms produce highly absorptive spaces of urban interaction, known as 'platform ecosystems', that are capable of recalibrating a range of existing urban conditions, infrastructures and practices according to their particular platform architectures.
Autorenporträt
Sarah Barns is a digital strategist, policy researcher, practitioner and scholar, with a career-long commitment to cultivating digital public spaces in connected cities. Having worked as policy adviser, digital strategist, urban consultant and creative producer, Sarah completed a PhD on the history of digital urbanism in 2010, using mobile media as a platform for experiential histories of urban activism. In 2014 Sarah was awarded an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project Platform Urbanism: data infomediaries, city labs and open data experiments in urban governance, based at Western Sydney University and Australias national data science agency Data61. Today Sarah develops urban data policy and strategy for a range of public and private organisations, as well as being one half of Sydney digital placemaking practice Esem Projects.
Herstellerkennzeichnung:
Springer Verlag GmbH
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