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60 416 Platform urbanism - digital technologies and urban living

Emnenavn på English: 
Platform urbanism - digital technologies and urban living
Studiepoeng: 
6
Emnekode: 
60 416
Studienivå: 
Syklus 2
Undervisningssemester: 
2024 Vår
Eksamenssemester: 
2024 Vår
Undervisningsspråk: 
Engelsk
År: 
2024
Maksimum antall studenter: 
16
Emneansvarlig
Jonny Aspen
Forkunnskapskrav

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Om emnet

How does digital technologies impact cities and urban living? This course aims to examine how digital platform services work and operate in urban settings, and  how they it affect urban public cultures and everyday living.

 

Today cities work both as an inspiration and a testing ground for a range of digital platform services, within fields such as transport, food and goods delivery, and specialized service provision. This  contributes to an ongoing digital reshaping of urban public cultures and everyday living. To handle this development there’s a need to develop more specific knowledge about how urban cultures and social relations are affected by the continuously evolving world of digital platform services. This is the main topic of this course.

 

The course will consist of a series of fieldwork studies and exercises related to mapping digital service platforms and how they work, both in relation to its online and offline dimensions.

 

The theoretical component of the course will consist of readings on issues of platform urbanism, both understood as a technological phenomenon and as a specific mode of urban service provision. Furthermore, we will look into the world of urban theory, as a background for discussing how digital platform technologies affect urban cultures and social life.

 

 

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge: The students will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge about the emerging world of platform urbanism, both as a technological and social feature.

 

Skills: The students will acquire skills in a set of research tools for exploring platform urbanism, both along technological and social dimensions.

 

General competence: The students will acquire competence on the technological, digital, and social dimensions of platform urbanism. This will prepare them for conducting an in-depth case study of their own (of theoretical or more practical kinds), which is to be presented in a final essay.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The course will be organized as a combination of seminars (first part of the day), and individual / group work (second part of the day) focusing on readings and various field work assignments (both online and offline). The seminar sessions will consist of a series of lectures, discussion of (weekly) readings (in which students in turn are responsible for text presentation), and report on ongoing fieldwork assignments. In the last part of the semester the students will write an report/essay based on a self-defined study on platform urbanism.

Pensum

Link to course literature registered in Leganto

Obligatorisk arbeidskravPåkrevde arbeidskravOppmøte påkrevdKommentar
Oppmøte til undervisning Ikke påkrevdStudents are expected to join in on weekly seminars. Presentations and assignments are compulsory.
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Obligatorisk arbeidskrav:Oppmøte til undervisning
Påkrevde arbeidskrav:
Oppmøte påkrevd:Ikke påkrevd
Kommentar:Students are expected to join in on weekly seminars. Presentations and assignments are compulsory.
VurderingsformGrupperingKarakterskalaKommentar
ProsjektoppgaveIndividuellBestått / ikke beståttProject assignment: The students are expected to write a final paper/essay (8–10 pages) on an optional theme within the overall topic of platform urbanism.
Vurderinger:
Vurderingsform:Prosjektoppgave
Gruppering:Individuell
Karakterskala:Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:Project assignment: The students are expected to write a final paper/essay (8–10 pages) on an optional theme within the overall topic of platform urbanism.