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As the contributors to The City Is the Factory argue, this resurgent politics of the square is itself part of a broader shift in the primary locations and targets of popular protest from the workplace to the city.
Preface / Stephen Salyer -- Introduction: news literacy in the dawn of a hypermedia age / Paul Mihailidis -- THEORETICAL MODELS FOR NEWS LITERACY EDUCATION.
This book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students across Urban Planning, Sustainability and STS, as well as practitioners and policy makers involved in the development of urban life.
This paper studies how the Global Open Data Index (GODI) mobilises different audiences and translates into open data policy and publication.
Governments can use artificial intelligence (AI) to design better policies and make better and more targeted decisions, enhance communication and engagement with citizens, and improve the speed and quality of public services
In this book, some of the world s most prominent students of politics offer original discussions of these pressing questions, eschewing narrow methodological diatribes to explore what political science is and how political scientists should
Sharing economy and urban commons are inherently intertwined.
This book will be discussed in an online roundable on the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
A Design-driven, Community-based Model for Sustainable Cities
Data access is essential for serving the public good. This book provides new frameworks to address the resultant privacy issues.
This book highlights some of the most fascinating current uses, thought-provoking changes, and biggest challenges that Big Data means for our society
This book reflects on the implications of WikiLeaks across politics and media, and on the results of leak journalism and transparency activism
Contributors explore issues of ethics, politics, and positionality in their work. This book highlights the importance of respecting multiple knowledge streams, worldviews, and practices situated in a place.
User Unfriendly will be valuable to historians of technology, students of American culture, and anyone interested in our modern dependence on machines and gadgets
Ideal for art and media educators within preservice and higher education spaces, this book equips readers to prepare their students to be thoughtful and critical producers of their own media that can effectively advocate for social change.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it
This book presents a synthesis of recent research that has brought detailed and robust results
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TorontoWe have led more than 50 Reference Panels and Citizens’ Assemblies contributing approximately 71,000 volunteer hours to policy-making in Canada — making MASS internationally recognized for its work in public deliberation.
These debates have, however, taken place before the rise of open data and big data and the development of an open data movement. The book considers the role of the open data movement in fostering transformation to a knowledge society.
Participants responded to the process's pain points and successful aspects during three one-on-one process interviews.
The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy takes stock of deliberative democracy as a research field, in philosophy, in various research programmes in the social sciences and law, and in political practice around the globe
This book discusses spatial practices of autonomous social movements, the movements who ‘see their everyday experiences and creations as the revolution they are making’, together with these movements and in taking the diversity of their ...
It shows how public managers need toretain and develop their own IT expertise and to carefully maintain well-contested markets if they are to deliver value for money in their dealings with the very powerful global IT industry
And what tools and methods do commoners need to strengthen their work? These are the three questions at the heart of The Urban Commons Cookbook, a handbook for those interested in starting, growing and supporting community-led projects.
This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and breadth, the many faces of a topical subject of major importance for the future that encompasses so much of modern urban life ...
Whether you're an IT specialist, a city planner, a human resources manager, or any other professional in local government, this book offers a wide array of prompts designed to stimulate innovative solutions, streamline operations, and ...
Open Data Strategy A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition.
Examining the changing nature of cities in the face of smart technology, this book studies key new challenges and capabilities defined by the Internet of Things, data science, blockchain and artificial intelligence.
In light of the increased utilization of information technologies, such as social media and the ‘Internet of Things,’ this book investigates how this digital transformation process creates new challenges and opportunities for political
Challenges of Online Citizen Engagement
Informed by a comparative case study approach, this book seeks to narrow that gap and offer practical policy solutions to facilitate local e-government.
Yet, the growing role of social media in everyday life has raised challenging questions about privacy, advertising, and the effect on young people that are addressed in this book.
Working with Data in the Public Sector: From Fear to Enthusiasm is the first book designed for practicing and future public administration professionals to help overcome any anxiety about using data effectively in their roles.
This book tells the story of radical transparency in a datafied world.
Highlighting a wide range of topics including community inclusion, cultural innovation, and public safety, this book is ideally designed for urban planners, entrepreneurs, engineers, government officials, policymakers, academicians, ...
Institutional inertia, nevertheless, causes large delays in updating and adapting
Authors Andrew Young and Stefaan Verhulst, both with The GovLab at New York University, explain how these projects have made governments more accountable and efficient, helped policymakers find solutions to previously intractable public ...
Using numerous cities from different regions around the globe, the book compares how smart cities of different sizes are evolving in different countries and continents.
In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment of the need to incorporate citizens’ input in decision-making processes in more or less structured ways.
This book delves into the effects of technology on the delivery of services to all of us who pay the taxes.
I love this book! At a time in which activism must urgently rise to be a much more effective tool for systems change, Mueller gives us a deeply researched yet practical reference book to methodically take activism from passion to impact
Resource guide for children for learning political action skills that can help them make a difference in solving social problems at the community, state, and national levels.
Towards Empirical Analysis of Open Government Data Initiatives
This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2016: “Intelligent and impassioned, Citizen Scientist is essential reading for anyone interested in the natural world
Is this true? In Uneven Innovation, Jennifer Clark considers the potential of these emerging technologies as well as their capacity to exacerbate existing inequalities and even produce new ones
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