Urban Political Podcast

96 - Digital Cities and Democracy


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In this episode Ross Beveridge, co-founder of our Podcast, and guests discuss the topic of digital cities and democracy.

Digitalisation is transforming cities, urbanization and urban life – but how is it changing urban politics?

What issues of justice and democracy are at stake in the advance of digital technologies?
What are the power implications of the unending rise of corporate digital platforms, like Amazon?
How are social media platforms reconfiguring the ways we live in cities and the ways we conduct politics?
And what does the future hold?

Ross discusses these questions with 4 scholars who have recently published important books in this field:

Myria Georgiou, who is a Professor of Media and Communications and Head of the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. She is the author of the book: Being Human in Digital Cities, published by Polity Press.

Rob Kitchin, who is a professor in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute at Maynooth University. He is the author of Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods, published by Polity Press.

Yu-Shan Tseng, who is an Anniversary Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Southampton. She is the author of Liquid democracy: a comparative study of digital urban democracy, published by Wiley & Sons.

Justus Uitermark, who is Professor of Urban Geography and the Academic Director of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author, with Petter Törnberg, of Seeing Like a Platform An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity, published by Routledge.

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