“Google Is Not a Good Neighbor”: The Google Campus Protests in Berlin

Hartmann, Maren

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“…Smart cities are often a top-down endeavor and due to their ostensibly technical nature are not always viewed by governments as a topic for debate in public settings. There are few well-studied cases of open political discussion about urban development projects that have smart city dimensions; examples are Toronto’s Quayside (Robinson and Coutts, 2019), New York’s Amazon HQ2 (Gupta, 2019), and Berlin-Kreuzberg’s Google Campus (Hartmann, 2022). Beyond such cases, whether smart cities become a more frequent topic of political debate—both among the public and in internal policy deliberations—is uncertain given increasingly vague conceptualizations (i.e., evolving narratives of “smartness” as an all-encompassing policy ideal) and given the rise of ever-newer technology paradigms and narratives (e.g., generative AI; see Guenduez and Mettler, 2023; af Malmborg and Trondal, 2023).…”

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State-society relations and government technology: a survey of public awareness and communication in Hong Kong

Hartley

2024

Data & Policy

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A survey of Hong Kong residents finds that public support for government technology, as understood through the concept of smart cities, is associated with concept-awareness and official communications. The statistical analysis identifies moderating effects attributable to personal social media use and controls for personal ideological views about scope of government intervention and perceived political legitimacy of smart city policies. The study builds on a growing body of empirical scholarship about public support for government technology, while also addressing a practical trend in urban governance: the growing sophistication of technologies like artificial intelligence and their use in strengthening government capacities. The Hong Kong case exemplifies ambitious investments in technology by governments and, at the time of the survey, relatively high freedom of political expression. The study’s findings help refine theories about state-society relations in the rapidly evolving context of technology for public sector use.

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State-society relations and government technology: a survey of public awareness and communication in Hong Kong

Hartley

2024

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Beyond the limits of rentability: Revalorizing urban space in late neoliberalism

Madden

2024

Environment and Planning F

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How has the process of urban spatial valorization evolved since the global financial crisis of 2007–2008? In the late neoliberal city, flows of value are increasingly captured through new forms of privately-controlled rentable property. In order to explore this process, this article develops the notion of rentability. It argues that the post-crisis period of urbanization in the neoliberal core is characterized by an emphasis on the expansion and deepening of rentability throughout urban and suburban space. The article details multiple manifestations of this process. It argues that there this process features distinctive spatial, scalar, and political patterns. And it explores how the expansion of rentability and of landlord-tenant relations are being contested in various ways. As more of urban life becomes subject to rent relations, new opportunities for resistance emerge.

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Mapping Geomedia Studies: Origins, Trajectories, and Future Directions

Jansson,

Ritter

2024

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This article explores the formation of and future avenues for geomedia studies. Drawing on a citation network analysis, we map the development of the interdisciplinary research terrain from its origins and identify central citation clusters. The term “geomedia” has been used in the humanities and social sciences since at least the early 2010s. Subsequently, geomedia studies have been advanced through an interdisciplinary scholarship from human geography, media and communication studies, and other related research areas, assessing the increasingly complex interplay between media technologies and the production of space. To detect the origins and growth of geomedia studies as an emerging field, we conduct a bibliographic citation and keyword analysis of 57 references from the Web of Science core collection. The generated charts and network graphs reveal that research on geomedia has mainly evolved within media and communication studies. A citation cluster analysis shows how two sub-communities and approaches have emerged, tentatively called “visual geomedia studies” and “urban-sociological geomedia studies.” A keyword cluster analysis reveals how the approaches are entangled with different theoretical perspectives. Given the societal relevance and the growing vitality of present-day geomedia studies, this article discusses the prospects of both approaches.

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“Google Is Not a Good Neighbor”: The Google Campus Protests in Berlin

Cited by 3 publications

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State-society relations and government technology: a survey of public awareness and communication in Hong Kong

State-society relations and government technology: a survey of public awareness and communication in Hong Kong

Beyond the limits of rentability: Revalorizing urban space in late neoliberalism

Mapping Geomedia Studies: Origins, Trajectories, and Future Directions

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