This talk explores the emerging trends and forces that are radically reshaping learning and knowledge practices. Learning has left the classroom. It is being re-constituted across distance, discipline, workplace, and media as the social and tec

The Real-Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism

Mar 3rd, 2014 54m 53s

Rob Kitchin discusses how cities are being instrumented with digital devices and infrastructure that produce ‘big data’. ‘Smart cities’ is a term that has gained traction in academia, business and government to describe cities that, on the one

New Media, New Civics?

Mar 3rd, 2014 1h 3m

Ethan Zuckerman explores contemporary anxieties about "a crisis in civics" and look at the idea that civics is changing along with digital media. The last decade has seen a shift in media from a world where a small, professional group produces

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