Bibliograph

Digital Social Innovation, Spatial Imaginaries and Technological Resistances in Urban Governance, by Chiara Certomà

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Label

Digital Social Innovation, Spatial Imaginaries and Technological Resistances in Urban Governance, by Chiara Certomà

Language

eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Digital Social Innovation

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1282252373

Responsibility statement

by Chiara Certomà

Series statement

Springer eBooks.

Sub title

Spatial Imaginaries and Technological Resistances in Urban Governance

Summary

This book engages the reader in exploring the relationships between digital social innovation initiatives and the city. It delivers a fresh, accessible and case-based discussion on the emergence of digitally-enabled social innovation practices in Europe that are redesigning the urban space and challenging the consolidated urban governance processes. By adopting a critical geography perspective, this ground-breaking analysis of digital social innovation provides the reader with an accessible overview of the way in which urban reproductive processes mobilise the physical and the virtual dimensions of the city and generate distinctive spatial configurations. Together with novel urban narratives and socio-technical imaginaries, these support the existing geometries of power or construct new ones. The author clearly describes contemporary cities as the new battlegrounds for controlling the digital sphere, shaped by the interplay between digital capitalism and resistance movements. In light of grassroots initiatives advanced by cyber-activists, e-makers and hackers, the book unveils the socio-political and cultural underpinnings of the revolution produced by the digital social innovations in the city and the socio-technological regimes supporting them. The author successfully sheds new critical light on traditional innovation studies exploring the debate on digital innovation through the lens of social and cultural geography and provides an invaluable reference for those working in this field. Chiara Certomà is Assistant Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the University of Turin (Italy), affiliate at the Centre for Sustainable Development at Ghent University (Belgium) and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Italy). She is currently visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technologies and Society at TU Graz (Austria).--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Roots and rise of Digital Social Innovation -- Chapter 3. Digital Social Innovation in the City: In search of a critical perspective -- Chapter 4. Representation: The social imaginaries of Digital Social Innovation -- Chapter 5. Re-production: Digital Social Innovation in Urban Governance -- Chapter 6. Power: The raise of Critical Digital Social Innovation

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