04226nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-41546-3 DE-He213 20251030111431.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240219s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031415463 978-3-031-41546-3 10.1007/978-3-031-41546-3 doi PN4699-5650 JFD bicssc KNTJ bicssc LAN008000 bisacsh JBCT4 thema Hanke, Bob. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 71211 A Smarter Toronto [electronic resource] : Some Reassembly Required / by Bob Hanke. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVII, 232 p. 13 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 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. “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. Journalism. 66133 Digital media. 59274 Mass media Moral and ethical aspects. 71212 Science Social aspects. 69032 News Journalism. 66134 Digital and New Media. 65945 Media Ethics. 71213 Science and Technology Studies. 69033 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031415456 Printed edition: 9783031415470 Printed edition: 9783031415487 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41546-3 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 57694 57694