TY - ABST T1 - “Seeking Follows” Y1 - 2019 A1 - James Ash ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

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.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER -