2020
Nansen, Bjørn; Apperley, Thomas H.
The Digitization of Children's Public Play Spaces Book Section
In: McQuire, Scott; Wei, Sun (Ed.): Communicative Cities and Urban Space, pp. 76-91, Routledge, 2020, ISBN: 978-0-367-51560-7.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Children, Digitization, Playgrounds, Urban play
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title = {The Digitization of Children's Public Play Spaces},
author = {Bjørn Nansen and Thomas H. Apperley},
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abstract = {This chapter explores the collision of digital technology and children’s public play spaces, as part of the broader trajectories of the communicative city in which the historical distinctions between the digital and the non-digital are blurred through mobile, locative, and ambient urban media. The digitization of children’s public space is, in common with many other social contexts, predominantly occurring through the widespread and often incidental use of personal mobile devices that occurs around children’s public play. Public playgrounds, which grew in number and popularity in the early twentieth century in response to the street as the default public space of children’s play making way for the car, were from their origins associated with children’s safe outdoor recreation and physical health. The penetration of mobile media infrastructures into playgrounds disrupts this understanding of the playground as a site that is “unmediated” by technological media.},
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This chapter explores the collision of digital technology and children’s public play spaces, as part of the broader trajectories of the communicative city in which the historical distinctions between the digital and the non-digital are blurred through mobile, locative, and ambient urban media. The digitization of children’s public space is, in common with many other social contexts, predominantly occurring through the widespread and often incidental use of personal mobile devices that occurs around children’s public play. Public playgrounds, which grew in number and popularity in the early twentieth century in response to the street as the default public space of children’s play making way for the car, were from their origins associated with children’s safe outdoor recreation and physical health. The penetration of mobile media infrastructures into playgrounds disrupts this understanding of the playground as a site that is “unmediated” by technological media.
2018
Leorke, Dale; Wyatt, Danielle
Public Libraries in the Smart City Book
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, ISBN: 978-9811328046.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Creative cities, Digitization, Disconnection, Library assessment, Library governance, Library users, Metrics, Neoliberalism, Public culture, Public libraries, Regional and rural libraries, Smart city, Social policy, Third space, Urban policy
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title = {Public Libraries in the Smart City},
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abstract = {Contextualizes the library within the physical space of the city, and within the broader policy strategies and governmental narratives shaping contemporary urban development.
Draws upon detailed ethnographic research with library staff and policymakers across contrasting urban and regional cities in Victoria, and across different municipalities in Melbourne and Singapore.
Provides the first critical accounts of the relationship between libraries and urban planning policy.
Re-orientates smart city scholarship from the bottom-up, illustrating how smart city agendas play out in an everyday space at the interface between government and community.
Offers a very immediate view of the current state of libraries by drawing upon interviews with a range of library professionals and policymakers conducted between 2015-2017.},
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Contextualizes the library within the physical space of the city, and within the broader policy strategies and governmental narratives shaping contemporary urban development.
Draws upon detailed ethnographic research with library staff and policymakers across contrasting urban and regional cities in Victoria, and across different municipalities in Melbourne and Singapore.
Provides the first critical accounts of the relationship between libraries and urban planning policy.
Re-orientates smart city scholarship from the bottom-up, illustrating how smart city agendas play out in an everyday space at the interface between government and community.
Offers a very immediate view of the current state of libraries by drawing upon interviews with a range of library professionals and policymakers conducted between 2015-2017.
Draws upon detailed ethnographic research with library staff and policymakers across contrasting urban and regional cities in Victoria, and across different municipalities in Melbourne and Singapore.
Provides the first critical accounts of the relationship between libraries and urban planning policy.
Re-orientates smart city scholarship from the bottom-up, illustrating how smart city agendas play out in an everyday space at the interface between government and community.
Offers a very immediate view of the current state of libraries by drawing upon interviews with a range of library professionals and policymakers conducted between 2015-2017.