The Urban Attention Economy: How Our Cities Are Rebuilt for Social Media

Törnberg, Petter

Petter Törnberg

Petter Törnberg is a postdoctoral researcher in Urban Geography at University of Amsterdam, whose research focus is the critical study of digital platform through Big Data. Petter is currently working on an NWO VENI project on the production of urban place on digital platforms, studying urban representation in large-scale textual data.

Dossiers, no. 1, vol. 8March 27, 2023<March 27, 2023

The Urban Attention Economy: How Our Cities Are Rebuilt for Social Media

Petter Törnberg

Urban aesthetics have become social media aesthetics, argues Petter Törnberg. Drawing on research from São Paolo, Törnberg shows how the logics of social media have become integral to the new urban attention economy.