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Collaborative and participatory challenges in urban media innovation
Urban media, conceptualized as the sum of the socio-technological infrastructure and technologically mediated practices in the urban environment, are increasingly shaping the nature of interactions in the public domain. These interactions entail both interactions between citizens, interactions between citizens and the public space, as well as the interactions between citizens and their local governments. Innovation in urban media is driven by three global shifts, with local implications: (1) urbanization, (2) technological evolutions and (3) changes in urban governance. This results in a rapidly evolving frontier of urban media innovation, often driven by a techno-optimistic discourse, which assumes technology can solve some of the ‘wicked’ societal challenges that a city is facing, and is usually framed as ‘smart city’ technology. This dissertation takes a closer look at this frontier from two perspectives. The first perspective studies the emergence of new urban technology, or more specifically: how cities are collaborating with other urban actors to collectively develop such technologies. The second perspective studies the role of new urban technologies in facilitating new interactions between citizens and local governments, more specifically: by investigating the nature of civic crowdsourcing platforms. Collaboration in urban ecosystems is often driven by ‘open innovation’ strategies and the notion of ‘distributed knowledge’. This means that innovation actors, who are involved in the development of innovative urban media, recognize the value of external knowledge (knowledge that is situated outside the organizational boundaries), and that such knowledge is distributed throughout the urban environment. To manage such collaborations, local governments are implementing ‘quadruple helix’ strategies and ‘open government’ models. Such quadruple helix strategies aim at unlocking and exchanging knowledge between four stakeholder groups: governments, academia, economic actors and citizens. However, how this strategy ...
Collaborative and participatory challenges in urban media innovation
Urban media, conceptualized as the sum of the socio-technological infrastructure and technologically mediated practices in the urban environment, are increasingly shaping the nature of interactions in the public domain. These interactions entail both interactions between citizens, interactions between citizens and the public space, as well as the interactions between citizens and their local governments. Innovation in urban media is driven by three global shifts, with local implications: (1) urbanization, (2) technological evolutions and (3) changes in urban governance. This results in a rapidly evolving frontier of urban media innovation, often driven by a techno-optimistic discourse, which assumes technology can solve some of the ‘wicked’ societal challenges that a city is facing, and is usually framed as ‘smart city’ technology. This dissertation takes a closer look at this frontier from two perspectives. The first perspective studies the emergence of new urban technology, or more specifically: how cities are collaborating with other urban actors to collectively develop such technologies. The second perspective studies the role of new urban technologies in facilitating new interactions between citizens and local governments, more specifically: by investigating the nature of civic crowdsourcing platforms. Collaboration in urban ecosystems is often driven by ‘open innovation’ strategies and the notion of ‘distributed knowledge’. This means that innovation actors, who are involved in the development of innovative urban media, recognize the value of external knowledge (knowledge that is situated outside the organizational boundaries), and that such knowledge is distributed throughout the urban environment. To manage such collaborations, local governments are implementing ‘quadruple helix’ strategies and ‘open government’ models. Such quadruple helix strategies aim at unlocking and exchanging knowledge between four stakeholder groups: governments, academia, economic actors and citizens. However, how this strategy ...
Collaborative and participatory challenges in urban media innovation
Baccarne, Bastiaan (author) / De Marez, Lieven
2019-01-01
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
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710
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