Research Catalog

Title

Platform urbanism : negotiating platform ecosystems in connected cities / Sarah Barns.

Author

Barns, Sarah

Publication

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

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Description

xvii, 232 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

This book reflects on what it means to live as urban citizens in a world increasingly shaped by the business and organisational logics of digital platforms. Where smart city strategies promote the roll-out of internet of things (IoT) technologies and big data analytics by city governments worldwide, platform urbanism responds to the deep and pervasive entanglements that exist between urban citizens, city services and platform ecosystems today. Recent years have witnessed a backlash against major global platforms, evidenced by burgeoning literatures on platform capitalism, the platform society, platform surveillance and platform governance, as well as regulatory attention towards the market power of platforms in their dominance of global data infrastructure. This book responds to these developments and asks: How do platform ecosystems reshape connected cities? How do urban researchers and policy makers respond to the logics of platform ecosystems and platform intermediation? What sorts of multisensory urban engagements are rendered through platform interfaces and modalities? And what sorts of governance challenges and responses are needed to cultivate and champion the digital public spaces of our connected lives.

Series Statement

Geographies of media

Uniform Title

Geographies of media.

Subject

• Cities and towns > Effect of technological innovations on
• Smartphones > Social aspects
• Information society

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: When digital became platform -- Chapter 3: City reverberations -- Chapter 4: The Uberisation of Everything -- Chapter 5: Making sense of platform intermediation -- Chapter 6: Platform intermediation as recombinatory urban governance -- Chapter 7: Intimate entanglements -- Chapter 8: City bricolage: Imagining the city as a platform -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Rethinking public value in an era of platform scale.

Call Number

JFD 20-3806

ISBN

• 9813297247
• 9789813297241

OCLC

1108517065

Author

Barns, Sarah, author.

Title

Platform urbanism : negotiating platform ecosystems in connected cities / Sarah Barns.

Publisher

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Geographies of media

Geographies of media.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 20-3806