"Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about one's disease, hail a cab using Uber, or read the news through Facebook's Instant Articles. The promise of connective platforms is that they offer personalized services and contribute to innovation and economic growth, while bypassing cumbersome institution ..."
"This book questions what role online platforms play in the organization of Western societies. First, how do platform mechanisms work and to what effect are they deployed?"
"Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis, and photo sharing and social networking sites, have made possible a more participatory Internet experience. Much of this technology is available for mobile phones, where it can be integrated with such device-specific features as sensors and GPS. From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen examines how this increasingly open, collaborative ..."
"This book questions what role online platforms play in the organization of Western societies. First, how do platform mechanisms work and to what effect are they deployed?"
"OCU Ediciones SA. Collaboration or Business? ... 2013. https://www.slideshare.
net/ AmayaApestegua/collaboration-or-business-collaborativeconsumption-from-
value-for-users-to-a-society-with-values-ocu. O'Dwyer, R. “Blockchains and Their
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The Hackable City(1st Edition) Digital Media and Collaborative City Making in the Network Society by Michiel De Lange, MartijnDeWaal Hardcover, 302 Pages, Published 2018 by Springer ISBN-13: , ISBN:
"This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for empowering citizens in the process of city ma ..."
The City as Interface(1st Edition) How New Media Are Changing the City (Reflect) by MartijnDeWaal Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Nai010 Publishers ISBN-13: 978-94-6208-050-8, ISBN: 94-6208-050-X
"In this thought-provoking book, Martijn de Waal, Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, discusses the ways in which digital and mobile media are changing urban life and our everyday experience of our physical surroundings. Few would deny the convenient and engaging nature of new media. But, probing deeper, de Waal delves into how the rise of these “urban media” also presents an important philosophical issue: how do they aff ..."
"This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies – the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outcome of the CyberParks Project, this book aims ..."
"Hacker cultures at large have been defined and described in various ways,
ranging from a subcultural techno-cultural jouissance to models for participation-
based governance (Powell 2016); from libertarian cypherpunks developing
cryptography tools to safeguard ... and more market-oriented, citizens try to
reclaim the lost ground through commons-based self-organisation around
themes such as health, ..."
"Intellect Books, UK (2016) Artopoulos, G., Synnes, K., Bahillo, A., Smaniotto
Costa, C., Rebernik, N.: Use of data analytics for enriching public spaces with
unique experiences of localised cultural heritage content. In: Busch, C., Kassung,
C., ..."
"With the rise of less formal, more personal media outlets like YouTube and blogs, the mass media is no longer our only public forum. This issue of the Dutch architectural journal "Open" investigates these new user-tailored media, asking, "What are the opportunities for artistic practices and critical forms of publicness?""