书评:Germaine Halegoua,《数字城市:媒体和场所的社会生产》

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A. Hutcheon, J. Hardley
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在《数字城市》中,Germaine Halegoua对智能城市及其(潜在)居民的状况进行了广泛而令人耳目一新的审视。这本书借鉴了亚洲、中东、欧洲和美国一些关键智能城市网站的信息,包括马斯达尔市和松多IBD等“从一开始就智能”的城市,以及广泛的实地调查,尤其是堪萨斯城谷歌光纤安装的零地附近。Halegoua提出了一个强有力的理由来重新考虑智能城市的概念,即智能城市不仅仅是城市环境中无处不在的计算能力。她的论点的核心是观察到,地方是一个不断变化的社会结构,我们使用最亲密的设备——智能手机——的方式是基于我们的社交欲望。Halegoua总结了移动媒体理论家和空间与地方学者,在本书的核心,旨在说明和分析“许多不同的参与者实际上正在使用数字技术和实践,将自己重新嵌入城市空间,以创造一种地方感”(第3页)——其中大部分是通过移动技术实现的。这本书首先详细概述了智能城市的最新技术,以及物联网是如何融入城市空间的新愿景的。正是在这里,一些著名的智能城市,如马斯达尔市,暴露出它们是建立在商业的非社会逻辑而非潜在居民的实际需求之上的鬼城。第二章是这本书最有力的一章,围绕着Halegoua在堪萨斯城推出谷歌光纤的实地参与展开。Halegoua指出,该项目的设计者将宽带本身视为一种商品,而不是以人们的需求为导向,或者至少是对人们的需求敏感,这导致了可预测的基于阶级的采用差距。在本章中,进一步令人信服的研究是将空间和社会维度整合到Halegoua利用她的民族志经验塑造的基层智慧城市框架中。本书的主要章节由最后一章总结,该章将创造力和地点联系起来,以及数字媒体和城市计算如何在这个空间创造新的机会。Halegoua的关键一步,也是本书的关键贡献,是建立“重新定位”的理念:“评估和结合身体的主观、习惯性实践,1024893 MMC0010.1177/205015799211024893移动媒体与传播书评2021
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Book Reviews: Germaine Halegoua, The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place
In The Digital City, Germaine Halegoua offers a broad and refreshing examination of the state of the smart city and its (potential) inhabitants. The book draws on information emerging from some key smart city sites across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the U.S., including “smart-from-the-start” cities such as Masdar City and the Songdo IBD, and extensive fieldwork, especially near ground zero of the Google Fiber installation in Kansas City. Halegoua makes a strong case for reconsidering the notion of the smart city as being more than the many capacities of ubiquitous computing in the urban context. Central to her argument is the observation that place is an always shifting social construct, and that the way we use the most intimate of our devices—the smartphone—is grounded in our social desires. Taking stock of mobile media theorists and space and place scholars, at the heart of this book, Halegoua aims to illustrate and analyze the ways “many different actors are actually using digital technologies and practices to re-embed themselves within urban space to create a sense of place” (p. 3)—much of which is done by, with and through mobile technologies. The book begins with a detailed overview of the state-of-the-art in smart cities, and how the Internet of Things has been implicated in new visions of urban space. It is here that some prominent smart cities, such as Masdar City, are exposed for the ghost towns they are, built upon the asocial logic of business rather than the actual needs of potential inhabitants. The second chapter is the book at its most powerful, centering around Halegoua’s engagement on the ground with the Google Fiber rollout in Kansas City. Here Halegoua points out that the designers of the project conceived of broadband as a good in and of itself, rather than being oriented, or at least sensitive to, the needs of people, leading to predictable class-based gaps in adoption. In this chapter, further compelling research is presented on the integration of spatial and social dimensions into the grassroots smart city framework that Halegoua shapes with her ethnographic experience. The main chapters of the book are rounded out by a final chapter that makes connections between creativity and place, and how digital media and urban computing are creating new opportunities in this space. Halegoua’s critical step, and the key contribution of the book, is the building the idea of “re-placeing”: the “subjective, habitual practice of assessing and combining physical, 1024893 MMC0010.1177/20501579211024893Mobile Media & CommunicationBook Reviews book-review2021
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期刊介绍: Mobile Media & Communication is a peer-reviewed forum for international, interdisciplinary academic research on the dynamic field of mobile media and communication. Mobile Media & Communication draws on a wide and continually renewed range of disciplines, engaging broadly in the concept of mobility itself.
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