Cities, digital communication and post-pandemic: from smart cities to platform urbanism

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17163/uni.n37.2022.05
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Cities, platforms, urbanism, digital communication, smart cities, post-pandemic, platformization

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Luis Sebastián R. Rossi
Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, Argentina
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3638-5857

Abstract

The paper will focus on the old connection between cities and digital communication in light of transformations speeded up both in the social, economic and health emergency of Covid-19 and in the post-pandemic. Thereby, the aim of the study will be to notice significant changes in the agenda of our field andits relations with urbanistic dimensions and theories. Therefore, it will undertake a strategy of academicliterature review in three fundamental instances. Firstly, attention is turned to the conditions that have made possible to understand urban realities in relation to information machines. Secondly, the study will retrieve the definition and criticism of smart cities whose strength becomes legible as an interpretive framework for many digital technologies in cities of our region and in the particular context of global crisis. Finally, the article will address platform urbanism as a perspective that allows to investigate the spread and reconstruction of metropolitan spaces through platformization and app ecosystems. In these aspects we will find a possible agenda for our field that —if it did not wait for the health emergency tobegin— has heuristic capacity for understanding and explaining the future realities of Iberoamericancities in light of mutations derived from the new normalization.

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No. 37 (2022): (September 2022-February 2023). A proposed agenda for digital communication research after the covid-19 pandemic in Iberoamerica
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Author Biography

Luis Sebastián R. Rossi, Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, Argentina

Luis Sebastián R. Rossi. Argentino. Doctor en Ciencias Sociales, Profesor y Licenciado en Comunicación Social. Investigador asistente en el Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos y del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (InES-UNER-CONICET). Docente Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación (FCEdu-UNER). 

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