Imar de Vries

Michiel de Lange

Joost Raessens

Sybille Lammes

René Glas

This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies.

Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture

The Playful Citizen

Martijn de Waal

This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for empowering citizens in the process of city making, relating examples of bottom-up or participatory practices to reflections about the changing roles of professional practitioners in the processes, as well as issues of governance and institutional policymaking.

Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Network Society

The Hackable City

Carlos Smaniotto Costa

Ina Šuklje Erjavec

Therese Kenna

Konstantinos Ioannidis

Gabriela Maksymiuk

This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies – the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outcome of the CyberParks Project, this book aims at fostering the understanding about the current and future interactions of the nexus people, public spaces and technology. It addresses a wide range of challenges and multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging phenomena related to the penetration of technology in people’s lifestyles - affecting therefore the whole society, and with this, the production and use of public spaces. Cyberparks coined the term cyberpark to describe the mediated public space, that emerging type of urban spaces where nature and cybertechnologies blend together to generate hybrid experiences and enhance quality of life.

New Approaches and Perspectives

CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology

Valerie Frissen

In this publication, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. This interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity.

The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures

Playful Identities

Michiel de Lange

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