Plug&Play Places: Lifeworlds of Multilocal Creative Knowledge Workers

Shaping an alternative smart city discourse through Twitter: Amsterdam and the role of creative migrants

“…Through their digital communication, they relate Amsterdam to the global networks of power represented by these smart cities (Castells, 1996(Castells, , 2012. Their use of hashtags in social media broadcasts local initiatives at a global level, being thus 'transversal enablers' (Wise, 2009;Wise & Velayutham, 2014) that have the potential to connect transnational and local communities (Nadler, 2013).…”

“…They link places through physical presence and digital flows of information and knowledge exchange and they heavily rely on media to do so. Previous studies have shown that they combine transnational and local communities (Nadler, 2013). It is for these reasons that their communication is object of analysis in this paper.…”

“…Amsterdam has been very active in attracting skilled migrants, giving rise to liquid migration processes and a mobile workforce that links meaningful work with urban lifestyles (Engbersen, 2012;Nadler, 2013). Global cities compete in attracting and retaining knowledge workers to increase their competitiveness, generate innovation and consequently economic growth (Angelidou, 2015;Florida, 2002;Hu, 2014;Kaplan et al, 2016;Yigitcanlar & Lönnqvist, 2013).…”

“…We analyze the digital communication of creative migrants and the way it contributes to the smart city discourse (cf. Nadler, 2013;Polson, 2015;Sun Sun Lim, Tabea Bork-Hüffer, & Brenda SA YeohLin, 2016). The innovative methodology we propose combines a language analysis of the (geo-tagged) Twitter data (i.e.…”

The "Creative Workspace”: A Comparative Analysis of Stakeholder Perceptions

“…Other sources attributed creative work function to "knowledge workers" (Megill, 2005; Duffy, Laing, Crisp, 1993; Dul et al 2011) or started using a blended term "creative knowledge workers" (Nadler, 2014). Florida (2012) was analyzing the factors that positively contributed to creative work patterns or innovation.…”