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Bookreview: NICOLA MCEWEN and LUIS MORENO (Eds): The Territorial Politics of Welfare
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Urbanistica in movimento. Die italienische Stadtplanung und das europäische Programm URBAN
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Thinking Together Digitalization and Social Innovation in Rural Areas: An Exploration of Rural Digitalization Projects in Germany
No full textDigitalization and social innovation are often discussed separately and without any spatial reference or in relation to cities, although newer works show the importance of social innovation also for rural areas. Existing digitalization projects illustrate the potential of digital technologies for rural development. Current debates on smart villages refer to both digitalization and social innovation but still in a rather unsystematic way. The paper seeks to think together digitalization and social innovation in rural areas more systemically and proposes to conceptually connect them with the help of sensitizing concepts, which are developed out of debates on social and digital social innovation. Along these concepts, the paper explores rural digitalization projects in Germany. On the one hand, this highlights the spectrum of these initiatives and, on the other hand, provides a framework under which digitalization and social innovation can be analyzed and smart villages may be supported systematically
Smart City: Between Utopia and Dystopia: Review of Sybille Bauriedl / Anke Strüver (Eds.) (2018): Smart City - Kritische Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung in Städten. Digitale Technologien, Raumproduktion, Intervention. Bielefeld: Transcript.
Get PDFDer Band vermittelt kritisch zwischen zwei weitverbreiteten Polen, wonach Smart-City-Ansätze entweder als Utopie von Nachhaltigkeit und Lebensqualität oder als Dystopie der Fremdsteuerung beschrieben wird. In dem lesenswerten Buch nehmen die Autor_innen unterschiedliche Einzelphänomene von smartem Urbanismus über alternatives Mapping bis hin zu großstädtischen Smart-City-Konzepten in den Blick. Während einerseits vor dem Einfluss dominanter IT-Unternehmen gewarnt wird, werden andererseits die Möglichkeiten alternativer Konzepte von Digitalisierung für Stadtgesellschaften aufgezeigt. Über allem steht dabei die Forderung nach einer gesellschaftlichen Debatte zur zukünftigen Gestaltung von Stadt, die technische wie soziale Aspekte gleichermaßen berücksichtigt.The book critically mediates between two widespread opposites, according to which smart city approaches are described either as a utopia of sustainability and quality of life or as a dystopia of external control. In the book - worth reading - the authors examine different phenomena ranging from smart urbanism or alternative mapping to existing European smart city concepts. On the one hand, articles warn against the influence of dominant IT companies, on the other hand, the possibilities of alternative concepts of digitisation for urban societies are shown. Above all, editors and authors demand for a social debate on the future of cities, which takes into account both technical and social aspects
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