Rethinking the Relational Socio-Technical Materialities of Cities and ICTs
Rethinking the Relational Socio-Technical Materialities of Cities and ICTs
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重新思考城市与信息通信技术的相关社会技术重要性
DOI：
10.1080/10630732.2011.578407
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Jonathan Rutherford
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作者：
Jonathan Rutherford
本文探讨了当我们仔细思考城市和通信技术不断变化的共同演化时所浮现出来的一些紧张、矛盾和问题。基于最近的城市研究理论脉络，本文提出了一种关于信息通信技术和城市网络的替代概念角度，以替代“城际”方法，该方法在认识到城市（部分以数字为媒介）的关系的同时，对城市作为其他地方部分的组装空间形成了一种更定性的理解。从这个角度来看，城市信息流是通过一个固有的社会技术过程来构建、维护和体验的，该过程基于不同参与者的日常活动和实践、他们与其他参与者建立和维持的有争议的关系以及他们在工作中使用的各种工具和手段。这意味着更多而不是更少地参与 ICT 流动的有形物质，因此（或许）规划者和实践者更有可能制定基于地方的渐进 ICT 战略。
This paper works through some of the tensions, contradictions, and issues that are brought to the surface when we think through carefully the shifting co-evolution of cities and communications technologies. Building on recent theoretical strands of urban studies, the paper suggests an alternative conceptual angle on ICTs and urban networks to the “inter-city” approach, which, while cognizant of the (in part digitally-mediated) relationality of cities, develops a more qualitative understanding of the urban as an assembled space of parts of other places. From this view, urban information flows are constructed, maintained, and experienced through an inherently socio-technical process based on the day-to-day activities and practices of a diverse set of actors, the contested relations they create and sustain with other actors, and the variety of tools and instruments they make use of in their work. This implies more, rather than less, engagement with the tangible materialities of ICT flows, and therefore (perhaps) more possibility for planners and practitioners to shape progressive place-based ICT strategies.