Undoing Optimization: Civic Action in Smart Cities - Couverture rigide

Powell, Alison B

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300223803 ISBN 13 : 9780300223804

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2021

Synopsis

A unique examination of the civic use, regulation, and politics of communication and data technologies

City life has been reconfigured by our use--and our expectations--of communication, data, and sensing technologies. In this book Alison Powell examines the civic use, regulation, and politics of these technologies, looking at how governments, planners, citizens, and activists expect them to enhance life in the city. She argues that the de facto forms of citizenship that emerge in relation to these technologies represent sites of contention over how governance and civic power should operate. These sites become more significant as an increasingly urbanized and polarized world faces new struggles over local participation and engagement. The author moves past the usual discussion of top-down versus bottom-up civic action and instead explains how citizenship shifts in response to technological change and particularly in response to issues related to pervasive sensing, big data, and surveillance in "smart cities."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alison B. Powell is associate professor of media and communication at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is affiliated with the Ada Lovelace Institute.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300223803
• ISBN 13: 9780300223804
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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