The Hackable City
This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for empowering citizens in the process of city making, relating examples of bottom-up or participatory practices to reflections about the changing roles of professional practitioners in the processes, as well as issues of governance and institutional policymaking.This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for empowering citizens in the process of city making, relating examples of bottom-up or participatory practices to reflections about the changing roles of professional practitioners in the processes, as well as issues of governance and institutional policymaking.
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This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborativ
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Michiel de Lange is an Assistant Professor in the Media and Culture Studies Department at Utrecht University. He is the Co-Founder of The Mobile City, a platform for the study of new media and urbanism; co-founder of research group [urban interfaces] at Utrecht University; a researcher in the field of (mobile) media, urban culture, identity and play. He is currently co-leading the NWO-funded three-year project Designing for Controversies in Responsible Smart Cities. He is co-editor of the books Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures (2015) and Playful Citizens: The Ludification of Culture, Science, and Politics (forthcoming).
Michiel de Lange (Editor)
Martijn de Waal is a Professor at the Play and Civic Media Research Group at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. At that university, he also holds the position of head of research at the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries. With Michiel de Lange, in 2007 he co-founded TheMobileCity.nl, an independent research group that investigates the influence of digital media technologies on urban life, and what this means for urban design and policy. His research focuses on digital media and the public sphere. Key publications include The City as Interface. How Digital Media are Changing the City (Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2012) and The Platform Society. Public Values in a Connective World (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018), co-authored with José van Dijck and Thomas Poell. Previously, he worked at the University of Amsterdam and University of Groningen. In 2009, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Civic Media at the MIT.
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