The Digital City and Mediated Urban Ecologies

This book examines the phenomenon of the "digital city" in the US by looking at three case studies: New York City, San Antonio, and Seattle. Kristin Scott considers how digital technologies are increasingly built into the logic and organization of urban spaces and argues that while each city articulates ideals such as those of open democracy, civic engagement, efficient governance, and enhanced security, competing capitalist interests attached to many of these digital technological programs make the "digital city" problematic.

List of contents

.Chapter 1: Contextualizing the Digital City.- .Chapter 2: New York City and Social Mediated Governance.- .Chapter 3: "CyberCity, U.S.A." and the Cyber-Security State.- .Chapter 4: Smart City Seattle and Geographies of Exclusion.- .Chapter 5: Conclusion.

About the author

Kristin Scott is Senior Lecturer in the Communications Department at Simmons College, USA.

Summary

This book examines the phenomenon of the “digital city” in the US by looking at three case studies: New York City, San Antonio, and Seattle. Kristin Scott considers how digital technologies are increasingly built into the logic and organization of urban spaces and argues that while each city articulates ideals such as those of open democracy, civic engagement, efficient governance, and enhanced security, competing capitalist interests attached to many of these digital technological programs make the “digital city” problematic.

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Scott
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319391724
• ISBN: 978-3-31-939172-4
• No. of pages: 189
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 17 mm x 220 mm
• Weight: 355 g
• Illustrations: IX, 189 p.
• Series: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; B, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Communication, Media and Communication, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Urban Sociology, The Americas, Sociology, Urban, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban communities, United States—Study and teaching, American Culture