Platformization of Urban Life

Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities. Edited by Anke Strüver & Sybille Bauriedl.

A critical debate on the actual implications of digitalization for socio-technical relationships between citizens, cities, and urban infrastructures. 17 contributions, structured by four thematic fields: 1. Conditions of Platformization of Urban Life; 2. Platform-mediated Care-work in Cities; 3. Spatial and Social Effects of Platformization; 4. Platform Capitalism in Neoliberal Times. - The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange. 302 Seiten mit 10 Farb- und s/w-Abb., broschiert (Urban Studies/transcript Verlag 2022) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear