With ICTs increasingly influencing the built environment, it becomes ever more important to analyse the impact of smart city technologies on citizens' behaviour. To explore this impact, the philosophy of technical mediation is used. This philosophy implies that our way of living is always, to some degree, constituted and transformed by technologies. This study's objective is to assess the applicability of Dorrestijn's model of human-technology relationships when exploring the impact of smart city technologies on citizen's behaviour. Based on Dorrestijn's model of figures of technical mediation, an argumentative literature review is conducted and mediating effects of smart city technologies categorized.
This research investigated the performances of participatory public art as ways of taking political agency in contemporary democracy. We considered these ‘maximalist’ forms of participation – ‘multi-sited’, as the language of democratic theory suggests, in both the political sphere of art and the formal arena of politics – as ways of doing, acting, and performing citizenship in democratic societies. Drawing upon the ‘cultural turn’ in citizenship studies, we assumed civic cultures as central variables to explain these forms of political agency. Referring to media audience research, we adopted an analytical framework to explore the artists’ civic cultures that are in action in public urban spaces. The analysis focused on performances of citizenship developed in Sardinia (Italy). The research shed light on the artists’ knowledge and values, the multiple layers of audience participation envisaged in their practices of communication, their (dis)trust towards institutions and non-elite actors in civil society, and the civic identities they perform in contemporary societies.
A partire dal dibattito sul concetto di spatial turn, questo articolo tenterà di interrogare il concetto da un punto di vista empirico, ovvero allontanandosi dalle formulazioni che lo identificano unicamente come una pura svolta teorica, per pensarlo come categoria analitica, capace di fornire un quadro di analisi utile a leggere quanto emerso in un campo di ricerca etnografico all'interno di una periferia napoletana. Un'esplorazione del concetto a partire dalla ricerca sul campo permette, infatti, di pensare alla nozione al di là del suo solo statuto teorico, cercando di coglierne le manifestazioni nella quotidianità di un luogo. Si cercherà, dunque, di considerare lo spazio in quanto variabile esplicativa fondamentale, cercando di comprendere chi pone al centro del proprio agire lo spazio (chi fa il turn?) e le ragioni di questa centralità dello spazio (perché lo fa? verso quale/i spatial?).
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