Special Issue Urban Studies journal | Ordinary Democracy and Digital Cities
Category: Publication
We aim for this Special Issue to open up interdisciplinary perspectives which take seriously ordinary accounts of digitalised places and spaces for reclaiming democracy from anti-democratic tendencies and universals. We especially welcome papers addressing lesser-known geographies and/or underrepresented populations. Papers might make ordinary claims on democracy through the following (non-exhaustive) topics on digital cities: • Civic hacking, platform cooperatives and related initiatives • Everyday and banal social media practices/networks and urban places/spaces • Open data, e-government and digital participation platforms • Digital education and literacy initiatives • Digital activism/organising practices (e.g. by political parties, social movements, trade unions, charities) • Digitalised/networked/automated urban storytelling (e.g. in fields such as journalism, graphic design, filmmaking, music, podcasting, architecture, planning) • Algorithmic mediations of urban participation, collaboration and representation • Smart city representations and technologies (e.g. urban digital twins, dashboards) as focal points for democratic politics • The implications of urban AI (e.g. large language models, text-to-image generation, robotics and automation) for democratic politics
Initiator(s):
Scott Rodgers
,
Yu-Shan Tseng
Deadline: 31.07.2025
Publication-Type: Article / Journal
Post created by: Lymor Wolf Goldstein