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which three were homeless and ten were ethnic minorities). While attempts were made to reach out to more of the area’s homeless, this group remained unresponsive. Local social workers explained that this was likely due to their lack of trust and their concern that they will be misrepresented. The Sundholm garden case study was chosen strategically. This urban garden and district renewal effort was heavily advertised in social media and in the local, national and European planning arenas as an exemplary case of inclusive planning (Sundholmsvej Omradeløft, 2009). It
work, you scan a different RFID card at the turnstile, and it lets you through. Your wallet contains several more RFID cards, some of which you haven’t used for a while. A few weeks ago you decided to buy a fancy aluminium-clad wallet to safeguard your information after reading about a card hacking scandal. An assistant sits at the reception desk beside the turnstile, looking idle, with his head down checking his social media apps. The last time you spoke to him was about a month ago, when your access card failed, and he let you through manually. You wonder how he is
maps constructed out of them, and as they are used in social media sites online, our identities are increasingly shrunk to fit them. Weileder’s Atlas, in its insistence on adding to the photograph, on splicing time and space together beyond the conventional photographic process, suggests that photography, per se, is no longer understood as a ‘strange weave of space and time’, but is rather a contributing factor to our lack of understanding of physical time or space. Weileder’s additions to the photographic process reinforce that crossed 126 Stitching memories
through waves of lawyers’ arrests from 2013 through to 2015. It was organised predominantly by lawyers, such as Xu Zhiyong and Teng Biao, and its roots lay in the wider civil rights movement which originated with the 2003 case of Sun Zhigang's death. Moreover, the New Citizen Movement was supposed to be ‘organised without organisations’: the civic rights lawyers associated with the movement used channels such as organising ‘citizen meals’ and information-spreading through social media in order to enable interactions and momentum-building for the movement (see Xu, 2017
, Howes and Synnott (1994) suggests that the gulf between our deodorised lives and that of ancient history is deep and wide. If you go back to Roman times, then cities were very smelly places before we had waste treatment. Figure 3.7 Contrasting smellscapes of the West End of London, mashup showing emissions, nature, food and animal smells against an OSM backdrop, as recorded in social media (courtesy of Schifanella Rossano, http://goodcitylife.org/smellymaps/). This figure has not been made available under a CC licence. Permission to reproduce it must be sought from
Cornelius at length about voyage plans. We found it hard to imagine what pandemic life ashore was like. Our landlubber friends and families were fascinated by life in Avontuur ’s strange form of lockdown. De Gentenaar , my hometown’s local newspaper, was keen to share the story. Captain, however, seemed suspicious of media engagements. His aversion to media, and especially social media, was obvious. Few professional seafarers share my desire to disconnect. 14 On World Maritime Day in 2015, participants told the IMO
subordinates human communication to productive work (through information and telecommunication technologies) and to the shaping of consumption habits (especially through the mass media as well as the social media). Thus, according to Agamben, “in the society of the spectacle, it is this very communicativity [the communicative essence of human beings], this generic essence itself (that is language as Gattungswesen), that is being separated in an autonomous sphere. What prevents communication is communicability itself” (2000: 84). To reclaim human capacities from direct
that had to be learned and then refined, with daily posts on social media depicting business-like situations, surrounded by laptops and smartphones in the exclusive environments his job lent access to. The imagery invokes the idea that the display of a successful lifestyle, albeit ‘staged’, would also attract success; proximity to money would attract money in turn. However, the excessive display of wealth in that setting, working as a sort of backdrop, did not necessarily reflect his everyday calibration of relationships, which on the other hand were discrete and
different modes of access to residents in case study areas (detailed above in relation to gatekeeping) or because of the sampling of surveys or the benefits of social media. Finally, variability may be shaped by the ordering of data collection as it rolled out in a different sequence (via surveys first or diaries and interviews first) for reasons beyond our control. Conclusions: the diversity of the peripheries This chapter has set out various intellectual and methodological realities and challenges as we reflect on how we have
trustworthiness among citizens (Kobie, 2019 ). By combining public and private database records – including social media data – with mass surveillance through facial recognition cameras (moderated by artificial intelligence), China aims to give each citizen a ‘unified social credit code’ (Kobie, 2019 ). By identifying social credit offences – ‘from not paying individual taxes or fines to spreading false information and taking drugs [and also] more minor violations [including] using expired tickets, smoking on a train or not walking a dog on a leash’ – the Chinese government