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A Smarter Toronto: Some Reassembly Required

Autor Bob Hanke
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 feb 2024
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.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031415456
ISBN-10: 3031415450
Ilustrații: XVII, 232 p. 13 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2024
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

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.

Notă biografică

Bob Hanke, a former faculty member in the Department of Communication & Media Studies, York University, Canada, is currently an independent scholar living in Toronto.
 
 

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“Bob Hanke’s “Smarter Toronto” is an important study of a key event in the recent history of urban planning, technological innovataion and urban journalism. The book masterfully weaves together complex theoretical ideas while remaining readable and deeply engaged with the events it describes. Hanke’s account of Google’s failed Sidewalk project in Toronto should interest anyone concerned with media, urban democracy and the future of cities.” 
—Will Straw, James McGill Professor of Urban Media Studies, McGill University

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 proposeand- 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, a former a faculty member in the Department of Communication & Media Studies, York University, Canada, is currently an independent scholar living in Toronto.


Caracteristici

Spans media, technocultural, urban, and journalism studies to construct a case study of a smart city project in Toronto Engages with assemblage theory, unpacks a toolbox of approaches and concepts, and radically contextualizes this project Examines how mediatized controversy shaped the project within relations of power with significance for technopolitics