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Technology as Ideology in Urban Governance
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In this article, the authors argue that the turn toward smart cities, emphasizing solutions, services, and infrastructures driven by digital technologies, has reinforced a dominant ideology shaping urban decision making.Abstract:
This article argues that the turn toward smart cities, emphasizing solutions, services, and infrastructures driven by digital technologies, has reinforced a dominant ideology shaping urban decision...read more
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Book review: To save everything click here: the folly of technological solutionism
TL;DR: Alison Powell finds that although the final chapter of this book provides some examples of thoughtful ways that technology could be used as a way of thinking through problems rather than as a panacea, Morozov does not develop his critique much beyond the superficial “it’s not all about the internet.”
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Book Review: The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information
TL;DR: This collection of essays provides a glimpse into the diversity of Australia’s youth subcultures and offers theoretical and methodological approaches that will benefit both Australian and non-Australian scholars interested in qualitative and contemporary theoretical youth and media studies.
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Digital geographies, feminist relationality, Black and queer code studies: Thriving otherwise:
TL;DR: Digitality is deeply implicated in sociospatial processes of exclusion, adverse incorporation, impoverishment and enrichment as discussed by the authors, and theorizing digital practices of life and thriving is politically and ep...
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Platform urbanism, smartphone applications and valuing data in a smart city
TL;DR: How the data mobilised by the smart city apps enacts particular versions of these values, and how those values co‐constitute specific kinds of bodies, agencies, and geographies in digitally mediated cities is examined.
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
TL;DR: The authors explored the history of meaning change of some of the most important words in the English language, including 'art', 'class', 'family','media','sex' and 'tradition'.
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Will the Real Smart City Please Stand Up?: Intelligent, progressive or entrepreneurial?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a preliminary critical polemic against some of the more rhetorical aspects of smart cities, with a view to problematizing a range of elements that supposedly characterize this new urban form, as well as question some underlying assumptions/contradictions hidden within the concept.
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
TL;DR: Noble's Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism is devastating as mentioned in this paper, which reduces to rubble the notion that technology is neutral and ideology-free.
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The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
TL;DR: The Black Box Society argues that we all need to be able to do so and to set limits on how big data affects our lives as mentioned in this paper. But who connects the dots about what firms are doing with this information?