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Title	From Utopia To Hacks And Glitches: Gender, Digital Realms And The City
ID_Doc	27336
Authors	Maalsen S.
Year	2024
Published	Handbook on Gender and Cities
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781786436139.00039
Abstract	Cities are increasingly being digitized. Terms such as ‘smart cities’, ‘platform urbanism’ and the ‘gig economy’ describe the ways in which digital technologies and platforms increasingly mediate our experience of the city, reconfiguring governance, planning and economies. Behind promises of increased efficiency, economic growth and better urban experiences, however, a less utopian version of digital disruption exists. Technology and its effects are not experienced evenly, and frequently discriminate along lines of gender, class and race. However, we should not dismiss the potentially liberatory possibilities that digital technologies can bring. We can hack the digital realm to create more generative opportunities for transgression. This chapter addresses the intersection of gender, the digital and the city, critiquing digital utopias but also highlighting how digital technologies can offer more generative possibilities for our cities and its gendered experiences. © Linda Peake, Anindita Datta and Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin 2024. All rights reserved.
Author Keywords	Feminism; Gender; Glitch; Hacking; Platform urbanism; Smart cities

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