The UN-HABITAT III conference held in Quito in late 2016 enshrined the first Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) with an exclusively urban focus. SDG 11, as it became known …

A corollary to the exponential growth of digital technology is the increase in research interest
in the construct of digital citizenship (DC) in diverse disciplinary areas. Although the term DC …

Using digital media is complicated. Invasions of privacy, increasing dataveillance, digital-by-
default commercial and civic transactions and the erosion of the democratic sphere are just …

From 9/11 to the Snowden leaks, stories about surveillance increasingly dominate the
headlines. But surveillance is not only'done to us'–it is something we do in everyday life. We …

This paper examines the neoliberal ideals that underpin participation and citizenship in the
smart city and their replication mechanisms at the European level, particularly focusing on …

Reacting to critiques that the smart city is overly technocratic and instrumental, companies
and cities have reframed their initiatives as 'citizen-centric'. However, what 'citizen …

Big data, algorithms, data mining, analytics, machine learning and AI have become some of
the most significant technical developments and concepts of recent years. Today's most …

Drawing on the thought of Max Weber, in particular his theory of stratification, this book
engages with the question of whether the digital divide simply extends traditional forms of …

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media
platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their …

Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic
environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the …