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Platform Urbanism

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This chapter offers an experiential introduction to the problematic of platform urbanism, reflecting the widespread integration of platform services and ecosystems within the everyday materiality of the city. With a pivot towards platforms evident across diverse literatures of platform studies, platform economics, platform surveillance and platform capitalism, ‘the platform’ has become an increasingly vital lens through which to tackle challenges associated with internet of things (IoT), connected infrastructures, artificial intelligence, social media, the sharing economy and the future of work. This chapter introduces my approach to navigating an increasingly platform-ed urbanism, which has seen digital platforms, and their underlying logics, become more and more integrated within the fine-grain of cities, in ways that are as much conceptual as they are computational. This approach informs a set of expositions throughout the book on the genealogies of platforms and platform-thinking, touching on elements of media and internet studies, smart cities, urban informatics, cybernetics and software studies.

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    While Guglielmo Marconi is often attributed as the inventor of radio technology, there are many other inventors, physicists and engineers who contributed to our understanding of radio communications. Nikolai Tesla is one inventor whose neglected role in its development is now being corrected. Another is Sir Ernest Rutherford, the New Zealand born physicist who built a magnetic detector capable of transmitting wireless signals while a student at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, in 1896. For more on the history of radio, see Gardiol, F. (2011). About the beginnings of wireless. International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, 1–8, Marvin, C. (1988a). When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, and Sterne J. (2004). The Audible Past: The Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham and London, Duke University Press. as examples.

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