Digital lives in the global city : contesting infrastructures / edited by Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Emily Paradis, and Brett Story.
Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2020]
© 2020
xvii, 289 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
"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.
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.
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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.
Cowen, Deborah, editor.
Mitchell, Alexis, 1983- editor.
Paradis, Emily, 1968- editor.
Story, Brett, editor.
Localisation: Bibliothèque main 309918
Cote: BIB 255061
Statut: Disponible
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