03823nam a22004695i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001600169072001700185072002300202072001700225100007300242245009000315250001800405264008500423300004500508336002600553337002600579338003600605347002400641505021800665520204700883650001602930650001902946650004302965650002903008650002103037650002703058650001803085650003603103710003403139773002603173776003603199776003603235776003603271856004603307978-3-031-41546-3DE-He21320251030111431.0cr nn 008mamaa240219s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830314154637 a10.1007/978-3-031-41546-32doi 4aPN4699-5650 7aJFD2bicssc 7aKNTJ2bicssc 7aLAN0080002bisacsh 7aJBCT42thema1 aHanke, Bob.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut12aA Smarter Torontoh[electronic resource] :bSome Reassembly Required /cby Bob Hanke.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXVII, 232 p. 13 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1. Journalism and the Smart City -- Chapter 2. Configuring the Case of the Quayside Project -- Chapter 3. Chronicle of a Mediatized Controversy -- Chapter 4. The Quayside Project: Some Reassembly Required.  a“Bob Hanke’s “Smarter Toronto” is an important study of a key event in the recent history of urban planning, technological innovataion and urban journalism. The book masterfully weaves together complex theoretical ideas while remaining readable and deeply engaged with the events it describes. Hanke’s account of Google’s failed Sidewalk project in Toronto should interest anyone concerned with media, urban democracy and the future of cities.” —Will Straw, James McGill Professor of Urban Media Studies, McGill University This book bridges media, technocultural, urban, and journalism studies to examine the role of journalism in relation to a smart city project on Toronto’s waterfront. From the announcement of the public-private partnership called Sidewalk Toronto to the project’s termination, a mediatized controversy unfolded. Through an assemblage approach to this project and a case study of The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star,it follows the actors and chronicles the Quayside project story as a conversation about the promise and perils of a future “smart” neighbourhood. In the news of Waterfront Toronto, Sidewalk Labs, other actors, events, and developments, there were multiple voices and views, interpretations and arguments, that manifested conflicting interests and values. As a locally situated actor, journalism produced a porous discourse that expressed a proposeand- public pushback movement. This work of articulating mediation conditioned the project’s alteration and dissolution within asymmetrical relations of power. In addition to a wave of opposition that inflected the project’s enactment, a time lag between project time and governmental policymaking made the controversy over this future urban space intractable. With their residual symbolic power, quality journalism contributed to dialogical urban learning. Bob Hanke, a former a faculty member in the Department of Communication & Media Studies, York University, Canada, is currently an independent scholar living in Toronto. 0aJournalism. 0aDigital media. 0aMass mediaxMoral and ethical aspects. 0aSciencexSocial aspects.14aNews Journalism.24aDigital and New Media.24aMedia Ethics.24aScience and Technology Studies.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303141545608iPrinted edition:z978303141547008iPrinted edition:z978303141548740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41546-3