Doing Good for Disability in Asian Smart Cities?

Zhuang, Victor, Jocelyn Tay, Gerard Goggin, Chei Sian Lee, and Meng Ee Wong

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 8, 2023<June 8, 2023

Doing Good for Disability in Asian Smart Cities?

Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Tay Sze Hwee Jocelyn, Gerard Goggin, Meng Ee Wong and Chei Sian Lee

Victor Zhuang et al. interrogate the discourse of “doing good” for disabled people through smart city initiatives and digital technology, asking how we might move from “doing good” to “doing good better.”

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 5, 2023<June 5, 2023

Care-by-Algorithm in Tiong Bahru Social Club (2020): Imagining the Technification of Happiness in Singapore

Pei-Sze Chow

Pei-Sze Chow reads the science-fiction film Tiong Bahru Social Club in the context of Singapore’s Smart Nation policies, arguing that its satirical vision of care-by-algorithm offers insights into how individuals might reclaim agency and “hack” the algocratic state.

Dossiers, no. 1, vol. 8March 30, 2023<March 30, 2023

Corporate Afrofuturism: Development Strategies for African Smart Cities

Kola Heyward-Rotimi

Kola Heyward-Rotimi investigates the speculative aesthetics of “corporate Afrofuturism” as a mode of neoliberal world-building. For smart city projects such as Nigeria’s Eko Atlantic, international architecture firms render digital projections of the continent’s urban future.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 7September 29, 2022<November 1, 2022

Beyond 5G: fieldnotes from Finland

Towards Atmospheric Care

Advancing feminist and critically engaged considerations of atmospheric media technologies, this essay by Towards Atmospheric Care (Hanna Husberg and Agata Marzecova) provides a snapshot of their ongoing interdisciplinary investigation of 5G-based smart solutions and new electronic ecosystems emerging in Finland, a country that has positioned itself at the forefront of inventing the wireless communication of the future.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 7September 28, 2022<September 28, 2022

5G: The Next True or False Public Utility of the Future City?

Fiona McDermott

Who is 5G really for? Fiona McDermott urges closer consideration of the public use value of much-hyped 5G technologies through an examination of the potentially fraught public-private partnerships extolling the development of urban 5G infrastructure in the name of public good.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 7September 27, 2022<September 28, 2022

Antifascism and anti-5G conspiracies

Günter Gassner

Günter Gassner examines the relationship between antifascism and anti-5G conspiracies, arguing for a critical examination of 5G as a global capitalist tool that can expedite fascist tendencies.

Mediapolis Now, no. 4, vol. 6September 27, 2021<September 27, 2021

Events Episode 1: Predictive Cities with Manu Luksch, Melissa Butcher, Sarah Keenan and Joel McKim

Scott Rodgers

In the latest episode of our Events podcast series, Manu Luksch, Melissa Butcher, Sarah Keenan and Joel McKim discuss the Predictive Cities VR Exhibition, specially available to Mediapolis listeners and readers until the end of 2021.

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 1November 25, 2016<January 17, 2017

Seeking Place in Mediated Urban Space

Zlatan Krajina

Beginning the second round of our continuing Roundtable, Zlatan Krajina explores the phenomenology of mediated place-making: the interaction of routines, institutions and citizens

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 1November 15, 2016<January 17, 2017

Right to the City, or Compulsion to Connect?

Myria Georgiou

In the third essay, Myria Georgiou reflects on the politicized relationships between the right to the city and emergent compulsions to communicate digitally.