«smart Cities» of the Debt Crisis: Grassroots Creativity in Mediterranean Europe

Λεοντιδου, Λιλα

doi:10.12681/grsr.8626

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“…Researchers in critical urban studies have proposed some ideas for an alternative vision of the smart city. They call for an agenda that is oriented away from corporate interests and foregrounding the knowledge, interests, and priorities of socially and politically marginalised, disadvantaged, or excluded groups (Leontidou, ; McFarlane & Söderström, ). McFarlane and Söderström () argue that to better imagine a future for smart cities that is more socially equitable, a return to an older definition of “smart” is required.…”

Section: Intervening In Futuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Internet of Things: Social dimensions

Lupton

2020

Sociology Compass

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vast, dispersed system in which a diverse array of objects, humans, and other living things is connected via “smart” technologies and the Internet. In this article, I present a thematic review of the literature that focuses on the social dimensions of the IoT. Drawing on research published in sociology, anthropology, cultural geography, critical urban studies, science and technology studies, environmental studies, and human–computer interaction studies and design, I outline key conceptual approaches and then discuss four major themes emerging across these dispersed but cognate literatures: (a) techno‐utopian imaginaries, (b) risks and harms, (c) lived experiences, and (d) interventions into futures. As I show, to date, most of the social research literature has focused on the topics of smart cities and smart homes in the context of the Global North. Some researchers have begun to employ innovative methods to generate new and alternative ways of imagining IoT technologies. The article concludes with proposing directions for future research. These include directing more attention to publics' role in intervening in the futures of IoT, to applications of smart technologies beyond the smart city and home, and the IoT in the context of the Global South.

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Section: Intervening In Futuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Internet of Things: Social dimensions

Lupton

2020

Sociology Compass

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“…It is argued that the current economic/financial crisis in peripheral European economies (see PIIGS: Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain) resulting in a reconstruction of a North/South and central/peripheral divide within Eurozone (Afouxenidis 2012, Leontidou 2012bLeontidou , 2015 serves as a profitable operation that benefits neoliberal economic regimes through extensive privatization of public wealth (see Klein, 2007;Z. Bauman, 2013;N.…”

Section: Crisis As An Opportunity For Radical Socio-economic Reconstrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Chomsky, 2015). Greece is perhaps a paradigmatic locus of this crisis (Leontidou 2015), which, in the last year, has been further compounded by massive influx of refugees from Syria and other zones of conflict and impoverishment in Asia and Africa (see http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/12/refugee-crisis-greeks-strangersmigrants?CMP=share_btn_fb)…”

Section: Crisis As An Opportunity For Radical Socio-economic Reconstrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sharing within a city in crisis: Two ICTs-supported P2P economic networks in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece

Margariti

Travlou

2018

IJEG

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The paper focuses on two emerging networks of sharing economy, the Trapeza Chronou time bank and the KOI.NO alternative currency in Thessaloniki, Greece. Both initiatives utilise open source ICTs to facilitate urban economic networking as means for enhancing local resilience, social inclusion and community self-management. Based on interviews with network members and participant observation, the paper discusses the socio-economic and technical characteristic, functioning and governance of these networks and evaluates their potential as pathways to radical socioeconomic change. KEYWORDS ICTS/Commons/alternative economy/collaborative networks/ P2P urbanism/open platforms/local resilience

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“…This approach not only reinforces a universalising view of urban development, but it also masks the social role of its citizens in its construction. According to Leontidou (2015), this has implications for the social benefits for citizens in smart city projects since 'digital technologies saturate the quotidian and the public realm, and they increasingly fall to the hands of digitally literate, highly educated (hence, intelligent), highly skilled young people' (p. 84). Even where the social impacts of smart cities are considered, discourses are usually based on the rhetoric of community participation rather than on effective participation (Hollands, 2008).…”

Section: Aesop / Young Academics Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%