Software, Objects, and Home Space

Dodge, Martin; Kitchin, Rob

doi:10.1068/a4138

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“…Graham and Marvin (2001), Thrift (Thrift and French, 2002;Thrift, 2014) and Kitchin and Dodge (2011) have all made important contributions to understanding how specific combinations of hardware and software control urban infrastructure and thus the spatial organisation of cities. The emphasis in this work is on software in particular as a form of "automated management" (Kitchin and Dodge, 2011: x) which operates without human intervention to generate data and trigger automated responses, from traffic light signals to advertising mailshots (see also Dodge and Kitchin, 2009;Kitchin 2014). An extensive body of work is also emerging that explores locative technologies of many kinds and their mediation of places and landscapes (see Boulton and Zook, 2013;Brighenti, 2010;Crampton, 2013;de Souza e Silva and Frith, 2012;Kitchin et al, 2013;Leszczynski, forthcoming;Wilson, 2011Wilson, , 2014a.…”

Section: The Challenge Of Digital Cultural Activity: Mutable Multimementioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking the geographies of cultural ‘objects’ through digital technologies

Rose

2015

Progress in Human Geography

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This paper addresses how geographers conceptualise cultural artifacts. Many geographical studies of cultural objects continue to depend heavily on an approach developed as part of the 'new cultural geography' in the 1980s. That approach examined the cultural politics of representations of place, space and landscape by undertaking close readings of specific cultural objects. Over three decades on, the cultural field (certainly in the Global North) has changed fundamentally, as digital technologies for the creation and dissemination of meaning have become extraordinarily pervasive and diverse. Yet geographical studies of cultural objects have thus far neglected to consider the conceptual and methodological implications of this shift. This paper argues that such studies must begin to map the complexities of digitally-mediated cultural production, circulation and interpretation. It will argue that to do this, it is necessary to move away from the attentive gaze on stable cultural objects as formulated by some of the new cultural geography, and instead focus on mapping the dynamics of the production, circulation and modification of meaning at digital interfaces and across frictional networks.

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Section: The Challenge Of Digital Cultural Activity: Mutable Multimementioning

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Rethinking the geographies of cultural ‘objects’ through digital technologies

Rose

2015

Progress in Human Geography

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“…We first consider the home, then the airport to flesh out this point. In the home, which cannot be unproblematically conceptualized as a safe space, technology tends not to exact a spectacular reorganization toward an only anticipatory or algorithmic future (Dodge and Kitchin 2009). Instead and more commonly, technology occupies a relation of banality, a background, encountering heteronormative and other circumstances of cohabitation.…”

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Queering code/space: the co-production of socio-sexual codes and digital technologies

Cockayne

Richardson

2017

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…Hence, software is not simply guided by users' desires but rather, as Beer points out, "acts in often unseen and concealed ways to structure and sort people, places and things" (2009, p. 988). There is thus a pressing need to investigate the consequences of our everyday lives becoming intertwined with and seriously affected by different kinds of software (see also Burrows, 2009;Dodge & Kitchin, 2009;Manovich, 2013).…”

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Participatory trouble: Towards an understanding of algorithmic structures on Facebook

Berg¹

2014

Cyberpsychology

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Several studies have engaged in understanding how the internet and online platforms increase political engagement through various forms of online participation and leverage social collective action. This article advances this line of research by exploring how social network sites in general and Facebook in particular are fuelled by algorithms that affect and become entangled with social practices on these sites. The article is empirically grounded in an analysis of 66 self-reflexive diaries on Facebook use and studies algorithmic structures on Facebook by exploring how personalized social feeds affect the experienced relationship between self and others as well as the readiness to share information to a network of peers.In contrast to studies that position online platforms as strengthening participatory political action, this article argues that it is necessary to take into account how algorithmic structures affect interpersonal relationships and the experienced ability to engage in participatory practices.

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Software, Objects, and Home Space

Abstract: Introduction A number of analysts have recently argued that software is increasingly making a difference to the constitution and production of everyday life, in large part because it alters the conditions through which space is beckoned into being (

Cited by 60 publications

References 36 publications

Rethinking the geographies of cultural ‘objects’ through digital technologies

Rethinking the geographies of cultural ‘objects’ through digital technologies

Queering code/space: the co-production of socio-sexual codes and digital technologies

Participatory trouble: Towards an understanding of algorithmic structures on Facebook

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