A Smarter Toronto - Bob Hanke

A Smarter Toronto

Some Reassembly Required

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
XVII, 232 Seiten
2024 | 1st ed. 2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-41545-6 (ISBN)
128,39 inkl. MwSt

This book bridges media, technocultural, urban, and journalism studies to examine the role of journalism in relation to a smart city project on Toronto's waterfront. From the announcement of the public-private partnership called Sidewalk Toronto to the project's termination, a mediatized controversy unfolded. Through an assemblage approach to this project and a case study of The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star, it follows the actors and chronicles the Quayside project story as a conversation about the promise and perils of a future "smart" neighbourhood. In the news of Waterfront Toronto, Sidewalk Labs, other actors, events, and developments, there were multiple voices and views, interpretations and arguments, that manifested conflicting interests and values. As a locally situated actor, journalism produced a porous discourse that expressed a propose-and-public pushback movement. This work of articulating mediation conditioned the project's alteration and dissolution within asymmetrical relations of power. In addition to a wave of opposition that inflected the project's enactment, a time lag between project time and governmental policymaking made the controversy over this future urban space intractable. With their residual symbolic power, quality journalism contributed to dialogical urban learning.

 

Bob Hanke, PhD, is a faculty member in the Department of Communication & Media Studies, York University, Canada. 

Chapter 1. Journalism and the Smart City.- Chapter 2. Configuring the Case of the Quayside Project.- Chapter 3. Chronicle of a Mediatized Controversy.- Chapter 4. The Quayside Project: Some Reassembly Required.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XVII, 232 p. 13 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 457 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Schlagworte Assemblage Theory • dialogical urban learning • digital governance • Digital media ethics` • journalism discourse • journalistic discourse • mediatized controversy • Sidewalk Toronto • Smart City • technological sovereignty
ISBN-10 3-031-41545-0 / 3031415450
ISBN-13 978-3-031-41545-6 / 9783031415456
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