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The Smart City Conundrum for Social Justice: Youth Perspectives on Digital Technologies and Urban Transformations
Annals of the American Association of Geographers ( IF 3.2 ) Pub Date : 2019-06-27 , DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2019.1617101
Michele Masucci 1 , Hamil Pearsall 1 , Alan Wiig 2
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This article employs a social justice framing to examine youth perspectives of the smart city. We examine how youth understand the impact of digital technologies on urban transformations and whether their technology skills and digital literacy give them a sense of ownership over the future of their city. Research was conducted within the context of a six-week summer educational program involving seventy-nine youth of color from public high schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The program mixed digital skill building with urban fieldwork to prototype solutions to long-standing urban problems: the sort of problems that smart city policies also seek to change. Our research points to a conundrum for youth. Although they embraced technological innovations, they indicated that digital technologies failed to serve the public or address pressing concerns they identified as problematic within the city: crime, drugs, and homelessness. Instead, in their view, digital technologies delivered the most benefit to private spaces in the home and workplace. Furthermore, the youth did not envision that emergent technologies would improve their neighborhoods or communities but only their employment prospects. This research suggests that the emergent smart city is reproducing actual as well as perceived urban inequities: Wealthy residential neighborhoods and spaces of the new economy become “smart,” but much of the city remains left behind. These patterns create a paradox for youth who invest in digital skills while remaining on the margins of technology-driven, smart urban change. Key Words: digital divide, Philadelphia, smart city, social justice, youth.



中文翻译:

社会正义的智慧城市难题:青年对数字技术和城市转型的看法

本文采用社会正义框架来研究智慧城市的青年观点。我们研究了年轻人如何理解数字技术对城市转型的影响,以及他们的技术技能和数字素养是否使他们对城市的未来充满了主人翁感。在为期六周的夏季教育计划的背景下进行了研究,该计划涉及宾夕法尼亚州费城公立中学的79名有色人种。该程序将数字技能建设与城市现场工作结合在一起,以原型解决长期存在的城市问题:智慧城市政策也试图改变的问题。我们的研究指出了青年的难题。尽管他们拥护技术创新,他们指出,数字技术无法为公众服务或解决他们认为在城市中存在问题的紧迫问题:犯罪,毒品和无家可归。相反,他们认为,数字技术为家庭和工作场所的私人空间带来了最大的收益。此外,年轻人没有想到新兴技术会改善他们的邻里或社区,只会改善他们的就业前景。这项研究表明,新兴的智慧城市正在重现实际以及人们认为的城市不平等现象:富裕的居民区和新经济的空间变得“智能”,但大部分城市仍然落后。这些模式为投资于数字技能却又停留在技术驱动的智慧城市变革的边缘的年轻人带来了悖论。数字技术为家庭和工作场所的私人空间带来了最大的收益。此外,年轻人没有想到新兴技术会改善他们的邻里或社区,只会改善他们的就业前景。这项研究表明,新兴的智慧城市正在重现实际的以及人们认为的城市不平等现象:富裕的居民区和新经济的空间变得“智能”,但大部分城市仍然落后。这些模式为投资于数字技能却又停留在技术驱动的智慧城市变革的边缘的年轻人带来了悖论。数字技术为家庭和工作场所的私人空间带来了最大的收益。此外,年轻人没有想到新兴技术会改善他们的邻里或社区,只会改善他们的就业前景。这项研究表明,新兴的智慧城市正在重现实际以及人们认为的城市不平等现象:富裕的居民区和新经济的空间变得“智能”,但大部分城市仍然落后。这些模式为年轻人投资数字技能,同时又停留在技术驱动的智慧城市变革的边缘,这带来了悖论。这项研究表明,新兴的智慧城市正在重现实际以及人们认为的城市不平等现象:富裕的居民区和新经济的空间变得“智能”,但大部分城市仍然落后。这些模式为年轻人投资数字技能,同时又停留在技术驱动的智慧城市变革的边缘,这带来了悖论。这项研究表明,新兴的智慧城市正在重现实际以及人们认为的城市不平等现象:富裕的居民区和新经济的空间变得“智能”,但大部分城市仍然落后。这些模式为年轻人投资数字技能,同时又停留在技术驱动的智慧城市变革的边缘,这带来了悖论。关键词:数字鸿沟,费城,智慧城市,社会正义,青年。

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