Steph's E-learning and Digital Cultures site » networks http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/stephaniec part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:05:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Thinking cities http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/stephaniec/2013/04/04/thinking-cities/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/stephaniec/2013/04/04/thinking-cities/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:55:00 +0000 Steph Carr http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/stephaniec/2013/04/04/thinking-cities/ Crang and Graham say ‘[this] is a world where we not only think of cities, but cities think of us..’ (2007 p.789).

I wonder what they are thinking…

 

Mike Crang & Stephen Graham (2007): SENTIENT CITIES Ambient
intelligence and the politics of urban space, Information, Communication & Society,
10:6, 789-817

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This used to be an image for a Transport for London shortcut, which I use fairly regularly these days to get around. But one trip to M&S cafe later, and I have an uninvited commercial bleed into my phone. This reminds me of my earlier ‘Hijacked‘ post although this seems more cynical somehow. And it also makes me wonder about the networks that are around us as we are merrily going about our business; how we take traces and imprints of them away with us; and what traces of ourselves we leave with them.

Or perhaps it’s just a seat for an angel as a counterpart to the tutorial devil! Very uncanny – but that’s another story!

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