Reblog > Nigel Thrift and Steven Koonin discuss urban science and big data
Stuart Elden points to an interesting video of a conversation with Nigel Thrift, discussing urban informatics, ‘big data’ and so on. Slight hint of Thrift buying into the rhetoric around ‘big data’ but...
View ArticleReblog > Anne Galloway at Mobilities & Design Workshop, Lancaster
The Mobilities and Design workshop (later this month) looks interesting, not least cos Anne will be joining from afar to talk about her excellent Counting Sheep project, as she says on her blog: I’m...
View ArticlePaper accepted – Memory programmes: the retention of collective life
I am pleased to share that I have recently had a paper accepted for Cultural Geographies, which will form part of a theme section/issue co-edited by Sarah Elwood and Katharyne Mitchell concerning...
View ArticleGreenfield on the politics of Uber as ‘socially corrosive mobility’
On his occasional blog Speedbird, Adam Greenfield has written an entertaining and incisive blogpost about the ‘mobility brokers’ Uber – the software-sorted unlicensed alt-taxi providers. The post is...
View ArticleWhat might happen when ‘things’ design themselves?
I’ve been meaning to flag this for a while… Chris Speed at Edinburgh (who gave the ‘dancing with data‘ talk I posted a while ago) is leading a project called ThingTank: The ThingTank project identifies...
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Reblog> New paper: Data-driven, networked urbanism
This looks good –– added to my ‘to read’ pile New paper: Data-driven, networked urbanism A new paper, ‘Data-driven, networked urbanism’, has been published by Rob Kitchin as Programmable City Working...
View ArticleFor these companies you, walking down the street, are a data point
I’ve been collecting the promotional videos of various companies that surveil ‘public’ spaces to garner information that, using the logics applied to web analytics, they see as valuable commercial...
View ArticleReblog> New paper: Anticipatory Logics of the Global Smart City Imaginary by...
Over on the programmable city website there’s news of a new paper by Jim Merricks White on the anticipatory logics of smart cities… I have previous here so it’ll be an interesting read! New paper:...
View ArticleReblog> New paper: Locative media and data-driven computing experiments...
A really interesting paper by Sung-Yueh Perng, Rob Kitchin and Leighton Evans, definitely worth a read. New paper: Locative media and data-driven computing experiments Sung-Yueh Perng, Rob Kitchin and...
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Internet of Things, ownership and Ts & Cs
Toothpaste terms of service Decided to make a spoof image that follows some others’ attempts to satirically reflect on the kinds of business models that seem to be creeping in for ‘Internet of Things’...
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