Session: Tracing a smart city in the making

Time: Thursday 5th July, 11:15 - 12:45

Convenor:

Dr Alan-Miguel Valdez (Research Associate, SCiM, The Open University)

Abstract Details

Urban scholarship is increasingly paying attention to the ways in which cities are reconfigured by digital technologies. The growing number of smart city projects being deployed provide unprecedented opportunities for studying ‘actually existing smart cities’.

SCiM-MK (http://www.scim-mk.org) is a social science research project focused on Milton Keynes, a ‘new town’ in England, as a smart city ‘in the making’. In this panel, we discuss methodological challenges faced by the SCiM project, and we also invite contributions from researchers that inspired us. Panelists will discuss their methodological practices for tracing the sites and situations in which smart cities are made.

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Presenter: Jo Bates

Data Journeys: Capturing the socio-material constitution of data objects and flows

The level of the session is: Accessible

Presentation details

Presentation 1

Start time: 11:15

Presentation title: Data Journeys: capturing the socio-material life of data flows

Presenter:

Dr Jo Bates (Senior Lecturer in Information Politics and Policy, University of Sheffield)

Presentation 2

Start time: 11:40

Presentation title: Interface Methods: a post-phenomenological approach to investigating digital objects

Presenter:

Dr James Ash (Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Newcastle University)

Presentation 3

Start time: 12:05

Presentation title: Mapping, tracing and following: assembling a smart city in the making

Presenter:

Professor Gillian Rose (Professor of Human Geography, University of Oxford)