Exploring Platform Urbanism Using Counter-Mapping

Opening the Black Box
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-658-40647-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 117 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 187 g

Reihe: BestMasters

In recent years, the world witnessed the rise of big digital platforms like Amazon, Airbnb, and Uber. The emerging research field of platform urbanism focuses on these developments and concentrates on platforms and their impact on everyday life in urban space. This book introduces a novel approach to the problems of accessibility and opacity in this area of research. In order to explore the black box platform urbanism more thoroughly, different participatory mapping approaches of critical cartography are examined. The potential of so-called counter-mapping practices and related approaches for a deeper exploration of platform urbanism is discussed. The author thus establishes the nexus between participatory mapping approaches of critical cartography and their application potential for platform urbanism and provides numerous starting points for future research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weissenrieder, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Method.- Approaching platform urbanism.- Impact of platforms on urban space.- Critical cartography.- Counter-mapping platform urbanism.- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Weissenrieder received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Human Geography from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. He then completed his Master of Arts in Human Geography - Global Studies at the University of Tübingen.