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- Utilizes theoretical and practical tools of inquiry to offer a comprehensive and yet accessible critique of technological practice
- Rigorously examines the socio-cultural, economic, and political implications of urban digitality across the US that sets the stage for international examinations of urban digitality in the future
- Takes an interdisciplinary, humanistic approach to understanding how the use of digital technologies function as a significant part of the urban ecosystem
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines the phenomenon of the “digital city” in the US by looking at three case studies: New York City, San Antonio, and Seattle. Kristin Scott considers how digital technologies are increasingly built into the logic and organization of urban spaces and argues that while each city articulates ideals such as those of open democracy, civic engagement, efficient governance, and enhanced security, competing capitalist interests attached to many of these digital technological programs make the “digital city” problematic.
Reviews
“Scott’s excellent book pierces through the celebratory rhetoric about ‘smart’ and ‘digital’ cities to reveal the more unsettling and problematic dimensions of the urban-technology nexus. Focusing on three fascinating cases—New York, San Antonio, and Seattle—The Digital City and Mediated Urban Ecologies explores how public agencies and private industry employ digital networking technologies to pursue the goals of profit, surveillance/security, and social control. In doing so, the book offers an important contribution to urban and media studies.” (Timothy A. Gibson, Department of Communication, George Mason University)
“Kristin Scott’s The Digital City and Mediated Urban Ecologies is a smart, detailed, and provocative exploration of how city governments, corporations, and NGOs have constructed the idea of ‘digital’ or ‘smart’ cities. Scott’s analysis of New York, San Antonio, and Seattle considers the intersections of technology, political economy, and identity to criticallyconsider who is benefiting from urban digital technologies and who is being left behind. It’s a must-read for scholars of mobile technologies, surveillance, urban planning, American culture, and media studies.” (Robert W. Gehl, author of Reverse Engineering Social Media (2014))
Authors and Affiliations
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Communications Department, Simmons College, Boston, USA
Kristin Scott
About the author
Kristin Scott is Senior Lecturer in the Communications Department at Simmons College, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Digital City and Mediated Urban Ecologies
Authors: Kristin Scott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39173-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39172-4Published: 08 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81834-4Published: 16 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39173-1Published: 28 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 189
Topics: Media and Communication, Urban Studies/Sociology, American Culture