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Calgary, AB
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I'm absolutely over-the-moon delighted to say the book I co-edited w/ D Mackinnon and @VVFast is finally being sold with @utpress! It's been a v. long process starting at 2019 @4sWeb in NOLA, & will extend into an authors-meet-critics at @theAAG next mo.! utorontopress.com/9781487527…
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"Policymakers need to recognize that #urbanplanning policies should not be limited by...digital technologies." ~@burnsr77
STPF fellow Ryan Burns looks at short-comings of "smart cities," which often view #tech as the sole solution to urban issues.
Canada's Smart Cities Challenges tends to put technology and the wants of vendors before the issues faced by city residents, resulting in a kind of technology solutionism, argues @burnsr77
theconversation.com/why-cana… #cities
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Canada's Smart Cities Challenges tends to put technology and the wants of vendors before the issues faced by city residents, resulting in a kind of technology solutionism, argues @burnsr77
theconversation.com/why-cana… #cities
been hearing that #ChatGPT and other #AI can help make your #city better? here's my latest critique of that idea: theconversation.com/why-cana… #SmartCities #Canada
Great podcast here! Glad to be a part of it
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We are recruiting for a new colleague in Human Geography at the Associate or Full rank:apply.interfolio.com/130044 @BlackGeogs @LatinxGeog
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Earth’s hottest recorded day was 16.92°C (62.46°F) on 24 July 2022
We’ve broken this record on each of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 July 2023, so far
It’s the hottest it’s been in 125,000 years. Now back to drilling for oil everyone
If you'd like to get a quick sense of what our book is about, check out this short blog post that provides a brief description and contextualization
Digital (In)justice in the Smart City foregrounds discussions of how we should think of and work toward urban digital justice in the smart city.
Read the full blog post by @thebrickofit, @burnsr77, and @VVFast: bit.ly/3XOl27i
#Technology #UrbanStudies #SmartCity
New @dig_geo open access article alert with @TretterEliot theorizes the digital transformations of oil & gas, arguing that digitalization has moved more extractive labor to distant urban centers, with racialized and gendered implications. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.202…
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Launch of the Digital Geographic Movements and Methods Workshop @UCalgary discussing past and futures of #digital_geographies with @burnsr77 @RobKitchin @lfalvarezleon @EttlingerNancy @CraigMDalton and many more great colleagues :-)
👉digitalgeog.com/
The SIEG I attended in 2016 was a wonderful expedience that really turbocharged my thinking about/with political economy. Pls circulate!
Pls share: Announcing the Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Singapore, July 21-26 2024. For post-fieldwork PhD students, postdocs, and early career faculty (travel assistance available, local expenses covered).
econgeog.net/events/Singapor…
Questions? <[email protected]>
Calgary, Alberta, site of the annual Global Energy Show, and site of some of the world's starkest contradictions, like in this energy panel today when the power (partially) went out #Calgary #abpoli #GES2023 #oilandgas #alberta
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🛎️ Check out this article by @burnsr77 and @welkerpd on '“Make our communities better through data”: The moral economy of smart city labor'.
Read open access here: buff.ly/43Ft8kv.
#smartcities, #opendata, #digitallabor xitter.cf/BigDataSoc/status/1540…
I'm thrilled to be stepping up as the Associate Editor of GeoJournal! Excited to see what I can get done, with YOU, at a journal in which I published one of my first articles almost exactly a decade ago 🤓🦾
I'm super looking forward to this talk tomorrow!
Institutskolloquium Kulturgeographie @unifau – Mi. 10. Mai mit @burnsr77 : „Relational geographies of labor in the #smart_city“
12.30 Seminarraum der Geographie, Wetterkreuz 15, Erlangen-Tennenlohe
👉geographie.nat.fau.de/instit…
RT to tag @VVFast
Mark Graham @geoplace from @oiioxford calls Digital (In)justice in the Smart City a "pathbreaking book that opens up a much-needed space for thinking about what justice in our cities of the future might look like." Order your copy: 2link.in/6qdaD #Technology #SmartCity
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Congratulations to Associate Professors in Geography, @burnsr77 and @VVFast for their recent publication titled Digital (In)justice in the Smart City!
Learn more: ow.ly/xfRR50NPeKK
Hey #AAG2023 we're not done yet! Join us for our session in an hour on digital injustice in the smart city. Governors Square 9 (Sheraton) in person or Zoom below!
ucalgary.zoom.us/j/968945446…
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For a preprint of my personal chapter, check this out: dropbox.com/s/pfj9j9yj12ak9x…
other chapters by too many to tag: @TorinMonahan @listerborn @branhillier @jwyg @NoortjeMarres @olmsna @karol_kurnicki @martintironi @alanwiig @ICC_Chang @InkaSantala @PaulineMcGuirk and dialogues with @RobKitchin @AyonaDatta @Vmosco @a_b_powell and S Graham (+others not on here)