Title & Author:

Digital lives in the global city : contesting infrastructures / edited by Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Emily Paradis, and Brett Story.

Publication:

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2020]
© 2020

Description:

xvii, 289 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword: Towers in the World, the World in the Towers / Katerina Cizek, director of the NFBs Highrise project -- Foreword: When Localities Go Global / Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University -- Introduction / Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Emily Paradis, Brett Story -- Toronto. Digital Debt in a Precarious City / Emily Paradis, Heather Frise -- Toronto's Unsecure(d) Urban Debtscape / Alan Walks -- Automating Social Inequality / Krystle Maki -- ACORN's Campaign for Affordable Access / Judy Duncan, ACORN -- Transmutations / Nehal El-Hadi -- Security and Surveillance. Digital Borders and Urban Worlds / Stephen Graham -- Audre Lorde's File and June Jordan's Skyrise / Simone Browne -- Policing the Future(s) / R. Josh Scannell -- Policing Borders through Sound / Anja Kanngieser -- Big Data Meet Location Monitoring / James Kilgore -- Digital Apartheid / Visualizing Impact -- Mumbai. Mumbai Rising, Buildings Falling / Emily Paradis, Brett Story, Deborah Cowen -- On "Market-Friendly" Planning in Mumbai / Hussain Indorewala, Shweta Wagh -- Kashaf Siddique on Being Precariously Home in the Suburbs / Deborah Cowen, Kashaf Siddique -- Dispatch from Mumbai / Deborah Cowen, Paramita Nath -- #WhyLoiter / Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan -- Shifting and Scripting Urban Lives. High-Altitude Protests and Necropolitical Digits / Ju Hui Judy Han -- Terabytes of Love / Indu Vashist -- Most Hated Woman in Israel / Shaka McGlotten -- DIY WI-FI / Heather Frise -- Network Dislocations / Nicole Starosielski -- Singapore. Labour of Global City Building / Alexis Mitchell, Deborah Cowen -- Skyline of Dreams / Grace Baey -- Sunny Island Set in the Sea / Charmaine Chua -- Singapore as "Best Home" / Natalie Oswin -- Not Another Cinderella Story / Symon James-Wilson.
Issued also in electronic formats.

Summary:

"Digital technologies have changed the world, transforming how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, re/create, produce, distribute, and consume. Digital infrastructures connect people and places across vast distances, yet they also extend the working day into personal time and space, increase the power of financial institutions, and enhance state and corporate surveillance capacities. Digital Lives in the Global City examines the entanglements of urban life, investigating how urban land, governance, and the economy are being contested and remade by advancing communication technologies. How do digital infrastructures influence complex human intimacies and perspectives? What does this mean for citizenship and political life in the city? Emerging from a multi-year partnership between scholars, documentary filmmakers, and communities, Digital Lives in the Global City intersperses critical scholarship with a series of provocative short works activists, artists, and citizens. Moving beyond the so-called smart cities of the global north, leading thinkers engage with a wide range of issues wrought by digital infrastructure: struggles over unsafe and illegal buildings in Mumbai, the conditions of migrant work in Singapore, the question of digital debt in Toronto, and targeted policing in New York. This nuanced exploration reveals the profound connections between digital technologies and the social life of global cities."-- Provided by publisher.

Biographical note:

Deborah Cowen is a professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. Alexis Mitchell is an artist and SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Disability Studies at New York University. Emily Paradis is an instructor with the Urban Studies Program of Innis College at the University of Toronto, a Maytree fellow, a collaborator with the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, a member of the Right to Housing Coalition, and an independent research consultant. Brett Story is an assistant professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University, has a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto.

ISBN:

9780774862387 (paperback)
0774862386 (paperback)
(pdf)
9780774862394
(epub)
9780774862400
(kindle)
9780774862417

Subject:

Cities and towns Technological innovations.
Technology Social aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
City and town life.
Smart cities.
Online social networks Social aspects.
Information society.
Villes Innovations.
Technologie Aspect social.
Sociologie urbaine.
Vie urbaine.
Villes intelligentes.
Réseaux sociaux (Internet) Aspect social.
Société informatisée.
urban sociology.

Added entries:

Cowen, Deborah, editor.
Mitchell, Alexis, 1983- editor.
Paradis, Emily, 1968- editor.
Story, Brett, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309918
Call No.: BIB 255061
Status: Available