This commentary advances the 'hack'as an urban concept. While the hack transcends
existing literatures on the digital and informality, it is a distinctive concept and is being used …

In the debate about smart cities, an alternative to a dominant top-down, tech-driven
solutionist approach has arisen in examples of 'civic hacking'. Hacking here refers to the …

The term urban hacking is one of the many attempts to name a phenomenon that has been
proven hard to pin down. Numerous, partly diffused terms like Adbusting, cultural jamming …

Software developers have long held community events in which they build code and discuss
issues or bugs they encounter. The open source community first coined the term …

In August 2014, hackerspaces in the Netherlands issued an open letter to the Dutch Public
Prosecution Service (PPS): in this document, members of hacker communities from …

This is the era of the fourth industrial revolution. It is characterized by new, digital spaces in
which individuals, especially digital natives, operate. It is in this new framework that digital …

This intervention advances glitches as epistemological vectors for apprehending and
engaging the significance of digitally-mediated spatialities that appear nonperformative …

It takes time to do in-depth case studies and to put reflective distance between oneself as a
writer and the subject one is writing about. Ethnographers always arrive late. This flimsy …

Smart cities promote computational and data-driven understandings of the built environment
and have the potential to reconfigure urban planning and governance practices in profound …

In fact, if we examine digital ways of thinking about the digital aspects of real cities, then
there is very little researchöbuilding computer models of digital networks, smart highways …