Schlagwort: Workshop

International Workshop „Policing the City in the Digital Age“

March, 6th to 8th, 2024
Organised by Jan Üblacker (EBZ Bochum), Hadas Zur (Harvard), Tim Lukas (University of Wuppertal)
Funded by Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)

Digitalization is changing practices of social control and policing in cities and neighborhoods. New technologies such as smartphones, apps, social media, sensors or algorithms reshapes police practices in the urban arena and reconfigures the interface between physical and digital spaces in police work. Moreover, digitalization facilitates and decentralizes law enforcement actions and order maintenance policing in a manner that involves new actors.

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International Workshop „Digitalization, Neighborhood Change and Social Integration“

May, 2nd to 3rd, 2022
Organised by Jan Üblacker (EBZ Bochum) and George C. Galster (Wayne State University, Detroit)
Funded by Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung

Technological innovations bear the potential to alter societal conditions drastically. This is also true at the smaller scale of the urban neighborhood. Some examples include: platform economies like AirBnB that are affecting housing availability and living conditions in neighborhoods, local social networks like nextdoor.com that are transforming the way we engage with our neighbors and the dynamic (re)construction of neighborhood images via social media and online real estate brokerages. In many ways, it becomes clear that peoples’ experiences of urban space are increasingly mediated through digital technologies, and their widespread use—in turn—affects neighborhood change, segregation and local social interaction, cohesion and integration.

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