Pub Date : 2025-03-31DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100118
Annika Heßmer , Susann Schäfer
The study of “Left-Behind-Places” (LBPs) in literature has revitalized geographical inequalities across disciplines. In this context, social infrastructure is gaining prominence, with schools being a key component. Schools not only foster education, employment, and community values but also support economic sustainability. Developments in today's society underscore the need of digitalized schools, ensuring schools remain attractive to qualified personnel and highlight their role in developing future potentials. Our case study in Thuringia, Germany, examines digitalization, location factors, and personnel qualifications at public schools using a standardized questionnaire, providing insights into regional disparities and their impact on LBPs.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100116
Mia M. Bennett
Through interviews and correspondence carried out with six Arctic environmental NGOs (ENGOs) in 2024, this article identifies how they derive meaning and power from satellite imagery. It applies the distinctions between data, information, and knowledge made by Boisot and Canals (2004) to satellite imagery, defining satellite data as that which contains information about the Earth, satellite information as that which can modify understandings of the Earth, and satellite knowledge as that which enables its producer to act and adapt to a changing planet. Arctic ENGOs are interested in accessing, analyzing, and sharing satellite imagery for purposes including tracking marine mammal migrations, mapping coastal inundations for Indigenous communities, pinpointing pollution in an increasingly off-limits Russia, and visualizing and communicating climate change. A limited number of Arctic ENGOs with geospatial skills are able to analyze satellite data, largely from public sources and occasionally from commercial sources, and turn it into information and knowledge. This capacity may enable them to inform regional governance and environmental management, yet at the same time it risks distancing them from the communities and ecologies for which they advocate unless they intentionally design locally-informed rather than data-driven research. Arctic ENGOs also serve as satellite information intermediaries, sharing imagery, charts, and other media they come across in scientific repositories and reports with wider audiences to influence public opinion. Although certain ENGO representatives contend that satellite imagery can reveal processes beyond the powers of human observation, including those of Arctic Indigenous Peoples, they note limitations to the data, especially due to the polar night and marine turbidity, and barriers to access, including cost and being outside academic institutions. Ultimately, the power of satellite imagery when harnessed by NGOs depends on whether they are wielding it as data, information, or knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-15DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100115
Mirjana Mitrović , Maja-Lee Voigt
With code connecting to concrete in ‘smart’ cities, oppressive, patriarchal, and binary architectures of the urban have been translated into their algorithmic counterparts, too. This particularly excludes people who do not conform to these inscribed norms. In the public realm of streets and screens, their bodies now become misidentified as glitches by digitalized welfare services, techno-politics, and passersby. Primarily known as a visual or audible phenomenon of disruption in the technological environment, this paper advocates for conceptualizing the glitch as more than that: it understands the glitch as three-part: 1. a fleeting, but potentially violent error – either by mistake (technical) or by design (social); 2. a moment of refusal of prevailing systems; and 3. as a gateway for changing what it reveals as flawed.
Drawing on (auto-)ethnographic fieldwork from 2020 to 2022 on flâneuses* and hackfeminist collectives we will show how these grassroots urbanist actors turn the painful error of their bodies not being considered in techno-urban environments into practices of refusal and change. Creatively and collectively, they manage to turn glitches ‘by design’ into entry points to technologically and socially fight for spaces centering care instead. The portrayed bottom-up practices are important examples for breaking with social and technical binaries: Through strolling and scrolling, they dismantle tools of (digital) domination and provoke to think of who actually participates in ‘smartified’ spaces. Celebrating glitching as refusal, flâneuses* and hackfeminists alike open up questions about the authorship and implemented ideologies hardcoded into the fabric of the cities of today. Moreover, alone and together, their refusal mobilizes alternative, plural futures and makes glitch(ing) a gateway to more caring techno-urban worlds.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100114
Samantha Cenere
The relationship between urban socio-spatial practices and digital technologies has been extensively scrutinised. Recently, research has driven attention to grassroots, non-corporate socio-technical experiments that contribute to the enactment of economic diversity while prefiguring alternative digital urban futures.
The article discusses two initiatives in the city of Turin, Italy. The first one, CeloCelo, is an online platform allowing people to donate objects and local third sector associations to collect them and assign to people in need. The second one, COSO, is a project employing a Blockchain-based wallet app to provide the neighbourhood community with instruments to support grassroots alternative sharing economies.
The article conceptualises the two investigated initiatives as digitally enabled alternative economies that variously co-constitute geographies of caring in the city. Employing qualitative methods, the research sheds light on how the enactment of caring is enabled by alternative forms of economic relations, which support the circulation of care in the city through the more-than-human collectives that sustain alternative economies. Specific attention is paid to the generative capacities of the digital technologies employed in order to understand their role in the unfolding of the socio-spatial relations that sustain alternative economies. In doing so, the present research aims at contributing to overcoming digital geographies that are still too prone to reading for hegemonies, while keeping an eye open to the need of reading the economy for difference (Gibson-Graham, 2006).
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Pub Date : 2025-03-03DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100113
Christina Grammatikopoulou
Amid Greece's extended economic and socio-political crisis, feminist movements have evolved dynamically to confront the deeply ingrained structures of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism that adversely affect women and marginalised communities. This evolution signifies a strategic shift from conventional street protests toward adopting a comprehensive strategy that includes radical care, digital activism, and establishing spaces of solidarity and resistance, both physical and digital. The analysis looks into the transformation of social movements in Greece following the economic crisis, examining them through a lens of care and their manifestations across digital and urban landscapes.
It explores the transition from street protests to solidarity initiatives, emphasising how feminist principles both drove and were reinforced by this shift. The discussion extends to the rise of feminist activism over the last decade, highlighting how it incorporates care within the community. Special attention is given to the creation of autonomous spaces by feminist groups, both locally and online, and their efforts to challenge and reshape dominant knowledge systems through hacking initiatives and data practices.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-07DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100112
Fenna Imara Hoefsloot , Neha Gupta , Dennis Mbugua Muthama , José de Jesús Flores Durán
Intermediaries play crucial roles in the implementation and functioning of the state in the transition towards digital governance. As a restructuring of networks, information flows, and territories – the digitalizing state implies the transition towards the digitalized interaction between the state and its residents, signaling a potential shift in the position of intermediaries in this process. Drawing on interviews with brokers and key informants in land administration and ethnographic observations in Nairobi, Guadalajara, and Mumbai, we explore the interplay between digital technologies, paper-based systems, typists, consultants, and citizens in the digitalizing state. This urges us to consider how digitalization, in many ways, goes against the novelty and excitement ascribed to the dynamics of modernizing and digitizing state governance. Paying attention to the geographies of information flows shows how digitalization unfolds in both the offices of the state as well as in subsidiary, hybrid spaces and through acts of brokerage. We argue that the paper-filled offices of the print shops and cybercafés are the sites where a potentially different range of alternative digital futures are exposed. Outside of the tropes of control, seamless connection, or the globalizing effect of digital technologies, these spaces give insight into the deeply institutionalized cultures and ways of organizing civil and political life in which digital technologies are introduced.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-06DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100111
Sina Hardaker , Alexandra Appel
Collaborations between digital platforms and governments are increasingly common, and understanding these partnerships is essential for grasping how platforms navigate and influence urban governance and market boundaries. This paper examines the legitimation processes involved in such collaborations, focusing on the eBay Deine Stadt initiative as a case study. This initiative, led by eBay, helps municipalities launch local online marketplaces, facilitating the digital transition for struggling brick-and-mortar retailers. Drawing on qualitative expert interviews with municipal stakeholders and a quantitative survey of retailers listed on the eBay Deine Stadt platform, this study offers several key contributions: Overall, it reveals the mixed outcomes of the eBay Deine Stadt initiative, adding to the discussion on platform legitimation in response to traditional retail decline. The study demonstrates the role of municipalities and government institutions in shaping the narrative of platforms as urban problem-solvers and highlights the absence of strategic planning by municipalities in their collaborations with digital platforms, noting that some urban actors promote a positive local perception, thereby potentially legitimizing increasing platformization. The study identifies institutional work as central to this legitimation process, highlighting a clear shift towards general validation.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-22DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100110
Junjun Yin , Matthew Brooks , Donghui Wang , Guangqing Chi
The profound impacts of climate change have spurred global concerns. Yet, public perceptions of this issue exhibit significant variations rooted in local contexts. This study investigates public perceptions of climate change in Alaska on Twitter and explores their connections with local socioeconomic and environmental factors. Using geo-located tweets from 2014 to 2017, we identified a collection of climate-related tweets using a deep learning framework. Employing lexicon-based sentiment analysis, we quantified the sentiments with positive and negative scores, further enriched by extracting eight core emotions expressed in each tweet. Furthermore, we applied regression models to assess the influence of regional socioeconomic and environmental attributes on climate-related sentiments at the census tract level. Our findings reveal an overall upward trajectory of Alaska's Twitter-expressed climate change sentiments over time, particularly during the summer months. Insights into the interplay between local demographics and environmental features and climate change perceptions include: (1) Census tracts with higher Native Alaskan or American Indian populations tend to express more negative sentiments, (2) the inclusion of road density stands out as a significant factor, suggesting that climate change is seen/discussed more in areas with more dense-built infrastructure, and (3) the presence of mixed emotions exhibits a profound connection with climate change sentiments—i.e., emotions of disgust and surprise are inversely related, whereas sadness and trust demonstrate positive associations. These outcomes underscore an evolving situation awareness of climate change among individuals, emphasizing the need to consider local factors in understanding public perceptions of this global issue.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2024.100108
Antonello Romano
This paper presents a case study that aims to analyze and compare original and synthetic geospatial data at the intra-urban scale. The goal is to explore the potential implications of the spread of synthetic data in scenarios where geospatial data are essential for decoding socio-spatial changes and where Geo-visualization is pivotal for spatial decision support. The methodology is based on a) the production of a synthetic dataset and b) the evaluation of the spatial similarity with the original one. Specifically, we employ a synthetic data provider, namely Mostly.AI, alongside geospatial data related to Airbnb listings in Florence, Italy. Results show which criticalities are linked to AI-derived data compared to the original ones, highlighting crucial spatial similarities and dissimilarities. Finally, the work critically discusses the broader societal implications of the widespread online synthetic data platforms, exploring the impacts of such a technological (re)evolution in a data-intensive society.
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