In the story, Twitter has taken over London after the collapse of democracy in 2038 and “follows” have become the main medium of exchange with those with the most follows selling their ability to gain attention to advertisers. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The author is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University.
BT - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables C6 -The author is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University.
C7 - 2019 CY - Np DA - 01/2019 LA - eng N2 -In the story, Twitter has taken over London after the collapse of democracy in 2038 and “follows” have become the main medium of exchange with those with the most follows selling their ability to gain attention to advertisers. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The author is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University.
PB - Meatspace Press PP - Np PY - 2019 SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 SP - 1161 EP - 303] T2 - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables TI - “Seeking Follows” ER -