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Media interventions in the city: assembling new publics of strangers (guest post by Katía Truijen)
Occasionally we post contributions from guest authors. This one below is a section from the interesting MA thesis by Katía Truijen. Enjoy! === Media interventions in the city: assembling new publics of strangers Katía Truijen – new media researcher This article is an excerpt of the MA thesis ‘Urban Dialogues. Media Interventions as Assembling Devices’. Give…
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Ownership in the hybrid city: themes and examples (part 2)
A while ago our study ‘Ownership in the Hybrid City’ was published. The study, written in collaboration with Virtueel Platform, informs the event Social Cities of Tomorrow (14 − 17 Feb 2012). In the study we explore how digital media can strengthen ‘ownership’, that is, citizen engagement with collective urban issues and the capacity to…
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Social Cities: how to engage citizens with digital media
(This article was published a few days ago on Engaging Cities, as a guest contribution) Social Cities: how to engage citizens with digital media Michiel de Lange – The Mobile City The increasing growth and complexity of cities raises the question how we can use digital media technologies and principles from online culture to design…