Platform Urbanism: An Introduction
Scott Rodgers & Susan Moore
Scott Rodgers and Susan Moore introduce a new Roundtable on urban platforms by asking how platforms may be understood as new forms of urban infrastructure.
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Micro to Macro in Hong Kong and Shanghai: How Media Cities View Mega Screens
Celia Grubba
In this essay, Celia Grubba, a student from Indiana University, discusses the ways in which public screens position and constitute China as global and cosmopolitan.
Infrastructural Inequalities and Digital Divides
Kortnee Tilson
In “Infrastructural Inequality and Digital Divides,” Kortnee Tilson navigates through the dense theoretical content of Manuel Castells’ work on networked societies, and provides an evaluation of his insights for questions of power, inequality and access in connection with digital infrastructures.