Digital Cities

Today’s city is not just social and material, but also digital. These elements overlap and combine, generating hybrid spaces, relationships, experiences, and memories. The digital city is a creative city, but also a city of constraint, of control, of contradictions. It liberates some, even as it deepens inequalities for many. In this course we use urban and sociological theories to pry open these processes and make sense of these new urban forms. We draw on methods and tools from digital social sciences and humanities to study today’s urban digital relations and artifacts, and even make some of our own. 3 hrs. sem.