The duality of platforms as infrastructures for urban politics
Rodgers, Scott (2021) The duality of platforms as infrastructures for urban politics. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 18 (4), pp. 404-412. ISSN 1479-1420.
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Abstract
Scholarship has recently sprouted up around the notion of ‘platform urbanism.’ In this essay, I outline an approach to the specifically communicative politics emerging through, and in relation to, platform infrastructures by drawing on research and observations in London, UK. Defending a phenomenological perspective, which sidesteps an a priori definition of platforms or infrastructures, I put forward a way of thinking about the experiential duality of platforms for urban politics. Here, platform infrastructures can appear as both: emergent objects of urban political concern; and withdrawn media, shaping spatial experience and the political meanings that are made of those spaces.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis, available online at the link above. |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | communication, infrastructure, London, platforms, urban politics |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Media and Culture, Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in (BIRMAC), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR), Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology |
| Depositing User: | Scott Rodgers |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2021 16:38 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:52 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/46935 |
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