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The urban-tech feedback loop: A surveillance and development data-walk in South Lake Union 城市-技术反馈回路：南湖联盟的监控与发展数据漫步

Digital Geography and Society Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100106

Dillon Mahmoudi , Anthony Levenda , Alicia Sabatino

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AI and data-driven urbanism: The Singapore experience 人工智能和数据驱动的城市化：新加坡的经验

Digital Geography and Society Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100104

Diganta Das , Berwyn Kwek

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From tenants to subscribers: Digital experiments in residential rent extraction 从租户到订户：住宅租金提取的数字实验

Digital Geography and Society Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100105

Tim White

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Working in the comfort zone: Understanding coworking spaces as post-digital, post-work and post-tourist territory 在舒适区工作：了解作为后数字时代、后工作时代和后旅游时代领地的协同工作空间

Digital Geography and Society Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100103

Karin Fast, André Jansson

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The digital geographies of tact 战术的数字地理

Digital Geography and Society Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100102

Mike Duggan

{"title":"The digital geographies of tact","authors":"Mike Duggan","doi":"10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100102","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100102","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article outlines a research agenda for the spatialities of tact produced by, through and of digital spaces. As a discipline interested in what and who characterises digital space, and in how different relations come to produce space, the article puts forward a proposition for geographers to take tact seriously as an inherently spatial concept useful for theorising the production of space in our digital society. The paper identifies three strands of tact from the literature, 1) tact and social behaviour, 2) tact and touch, 3) tact and judgement, and outlines what they can offer geography in terms of a novel framework for studying digital society. It raises questions of how and why digital spaces and practices produce new trajectories for displays of tact in everyday life, how digital spaces modulate our understanding and experiences of touch, as well as asking whether algorithmic decision making technologies such as Artificial Intelligence have a capacity for tact, and what that means for the geographies these systems shape. The work makes a contribution to the discipline's long standing interests in spatial tactics and socio-spatial behaviour, in touch and sensory geographies, and more recently to algorithmic decision making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100377,"journal":{"name":"Digital Geography and Society","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142527732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From FOSS to profit: Digital spatial technologies and the mode of production 从自由和开放源码软件到利润：数字空间技术与生产模式

Digital Geography and Society Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100101

Dillon Mahmoudi , Jim Thatcher , Laura Beltz Imaoka , David O'Sullivan

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Socio-spatial dynamics of E-participation: A case study of the Mudamos app in João Pessoa (2017–2020) 电子参与的社会空间动态：若昂佩索阿 Mudamos 应用程序案例研究（2017-2020 年）

Digital Geography and Society Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100100

Ricardo Condeixa , Alexandre Barbosa

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Platforms mediating domestic care work as service gigs in European cities: Reorganisation of social reproduction through marketisation 欧洲城市中作为服务性工作的家政护理工作中介平台：通过市场化重组社会再生产

Digital Geography and Society Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100099

Anke Strüver

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“Open data means business”: Infrastructural and economic implications of opening up data in smart London "开放数据意味着生意"：开放数据对智慧伦敦的基础设施和经济影响

Digital Geography and Society Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100098

Güneş Tavmen

{"title":"“Open data means business”: Infrastructural and economic implications of opening up data in smart London","authors":"Güneş Tavmen","doi":"10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100098","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Around 2009–2010, opening up public data was a governmental strategy in the UK, as part of the implementation of the Transparency Agenda, based on the assumption that unfettered access to government data would inexorably lead to transparency, accountability and participation. Following this conjecture, and in an attempt to create an alternative to the corporate-driven smart city discourse, the Greater London Authority prioritised open data in its initial smart city plans to facilitate a ‘citizen-centred’ smart city. However, subsumed within the digital economy, open data was eventually promoted and implemented primarily for its lucrative potential to create new businesses, rather than prioritising the aspirations of transparency and participation. In this article, I explore the implications of this shift and the nature of open data- driven smart city making by focusing on a transport app, Citymapper that is built on open data released by Transport for London (TfL). By closely studying the app's product development process to generate profit together with its struggle to raise funding through venture capital and crowdfunding, I arrive at two main arguments. First, I argue that open data driven smart city making in London was a form of experimentation instead of a formal and rigid planning as it saw open data as an end in itself without much understanding of what this process would lead to in practice. As such, the case of Citymapper shows that the contingent process of opening up public transport data meant opening up public infrastructure in the city. Second, by examining the app's unsustainable business models and detailing its struggle to maintain revenue and profitability, I outline how open data-driven products are ultimately subsumed within the logic of platform capitalism rather than creating an alternative digital economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100377,"journal":{"name":"Digital Geography and Society","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100098"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666378324000205/pdfft?md5=3ed7581dffa001f2d42a7de2d5350e09&pid=1-s2.0-S2666378324000205-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142315735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Digital wildlife expeditions and their impact on human-wildlife relations: Inside the phenomenon of livestreaming an annual moose migration 数字野生动物探险及其对人类与野生动物关系的影响：现场直播一年一度驼鹿迁徙现象的内幕

Digital Geography and Society Pub Date : 2024-07-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100097

Erica von Essen , Jesse Peterson

{"title":"Digital wildlife expeditions and their impact on human-wildlife relations: Inside the phenomenon of livestreaming an annual moose migration","authors":"Erica von Essen , Jesse Peterson","doi":"10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100097","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100097","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Tracking, viewing and livestreaming wildlife in situ but online has enabled new relations of proximity and immediacy to proliferate among people who experience few real-life encounters with wild animals. Innovating affordances of programs, broadcasts, and citizen science apps to foster virtual encounters, both with the wild animals in front of the camera, and between other human users following them, now generate an arena of vicarious consumption of wildlife from one's armchair, and at the click of a button. We show how <em>The Great Moose Migration</em>, a slow-TV sensation airing in Sweden every spring, blends multiple genres of nature documentary to create a unique space for the constitution of new attitudes to wildlife in general and moose in particular. This program's dynamic hybridity ‘migrates’ across event-based TV, slow-TV, participatory media, multimodal media, travel-based TV, reality TV, and cross-platform media. We demonstrate how the particular features of each format represents and thus mediates the wildlife. Using a digital ecologies approach, we show how the moose also ‘migrates’ across various media and formats, becoming subject to the whims and preferences of viewers who feedback into the production- This newfound virtual accessibility to moose breaks with tradition in Sweden. We argue that an emancipation of moose from hunters is partly occurring, but that its representation – even in so-called authentic, reality TV – is subject to new registers of power, narratives and aesthetics. Our study speaks to the various implications of the re-entanglement of nature into the everyday lives and leisure and work spaces of people in modern society.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100377,"journal":{"name":"Digital Geography and Society","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100097"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666378324000199/pdfft?md5=9b56b32d84465e77e6f2b7430db31921&pid=1-s2.0-S2666378324000199-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141623689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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