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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495215003321

Autore

Certomà Chiara

Titolo

Digital social innovation : spatial imaginaries and technological resistances in urban governance / / Chiara Certomà

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-80451-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Pivot

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Sociology, Urban

Technology - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Following Inspiring Practices -- 1.2 Digital Social Innovation: Why Should We Be Wary? -- References -- 2 Roots and Rise of Digital Social Innovation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Social Innovation -- 2.3 Social Innovation and the Digital Turn -- 2.4 Digital Social Innovation -- 2.5 The Social Construction of Digital Social Innovation -- References -- 3 Digital Social Innovation in the City: In Search of a Critical Perspective -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Urban Nature of Digital Social Innovation -- 3.3 Digital Social Innovation Initiatives in European Cities -- 3.4 The City as a Background for Digital Social Innovation -- 3.5 Behind the Background: The Social, Cultural and Political Spaces of the Augmented City -- 3.6 A Critical Research Agenda on Digital Social Innovation -- References -- 4 Representation: The Social Imaginaries of Digital Social Innovation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Social-Technical Imaginaries -- 4.3 Different Contexts, Alternative Definitions -- 4.4 The Alternative Imaginaries of Digital Social Innovation and Civic Tech -- 4.5 Unpacking Digital Social Innovation. Functionalist, Reformist and Revolutionary Perspectives -- 4.6 When Digital Social Innovation Meets Urban Imaginaries -- 4.6.1 The Hyperconnected-City -- 4.6.2 The Receptive-City -- 4.6.3 The Do-It-Yourself City -- 4.7 From Imaginaries to Production -- References -- 5 Reproduction: Digital Social Innovation in Urban Governance -- 5.1



Introduction -- 5.2 Governance as a Mode for Social Reproduction -- 5.3 Tensions and Contradictions in the Neoliberal Governance -- 5.4 Urban Governance in Time of Ubiquitous Digital Technologies -- 5.5 Digital Social Innovation in Urban Governance -- 5.6 Towards an Understanding of Digital Social Innovation as a Political Action.

References -- 6 Power: The Raise of Critical Digital Social Innovation -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Contradictions at the Heart of Digital Social Innovation: Technological Fetishism and Digital Participation -- 6.3 Technology Is Never Neutral: Small Tech vs Big Tech -- 6.4 The Data Issue -- 6.5 Building Up Alternatives: Philosophy (and Practice) of Revolutionary Digital Social Innovation -- 6.6 Against Surveillance Capitalism -- 6.7 Conclusion: Digital Resistances -- References -- Index.