Symposium on Urban Informatics Exploring Smarter Cities

Drexel University, Philadelphia
June 11, 2013

Venue

The Symposium will be held at the ExCITe Research Center in University City, Philadelphia. The ExCITe Center is a multi-disciplinary center with partners throughout the Philadelphia region. Among other initiatives, the ExCITe Center supports a city-scale research agenda that explores interfaces for urban computing. This research focuses on new interfaces and technologies that enhance connectedness with urban infrastructure to foster community and promote greater civic engagement.

Drexel University
ExCITe Center
3401 Market
Philadelphia, PA

Program
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

8:00 - 9:00	Light Breakfast and registration (registration available throughout the morning)
9:00 - 10:00	Welcome and Opening Plenary Dr. Keith Hampton Associate Professor School of Communication & Information, Rutgers University BIO After receiving his doctorate from University of Toronto in Sociology, Dr. Hampton joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty as the first professor of "technology and the city" in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and later joined the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as chair of the American Sociological Association's section on Communication and Information Technologies from 2007-2009, and past-chair from 2009-2010. Hampton is currently an associate professor of communication at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information. - from Wikipedia
10:15 - 11:45	Digital and Physical Spaces Raz Schwartz, Social Media Information Lab, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University The Social Media Life of Small Urban Spaces Jessa Lingel The city is my library: Spatial information practices of transnational migrants Mariam Asad and Christopher Le Dantec, Georgia Institute of Technology Cycle Atlanta: Data-Driven Discourse in City Planning
11:45 - 1:00	Working Lunch (provided)
1:00 - 2:30	Community Claudia Lopez, University of Pittsburgh Brian Butler, University of Maryland Does anything ever happen around here? Assessing the online information landscape for local events Bonnie J. Johnson, Urban Planning Germaine R. Halegoua, Film & Media Studies University of Kansas The Meaning of "Neighborhood" in the Digital Age and the Future of a Neighborhood Association" Stephanie Santoso Andreas Kuehn Intelligent Urbanism: Convivial Living in Smart Cities
2:30 - 2:45	Coffee Break
2:45 - 4:15	Citizen Participation Jonathan Lukens, Georgia Institute of Technology DIY Urban Telecom Jacob Thebault-Spieker CitizenSense: A Geographic Collective Intelligence Platform Laura Forlano Anijo Mathew, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology Designing Policy for Urban Informatics
4:15 - 5:45	Equity Todd Wolfson, Media Mobilizing Project and Rutgers University Poverty, Inequality, and the Social and Political Effects of the Digital Divide in Urban America Alan Wiig, Geography Urban Studies, Temple University Urban Change or Perpetuating Existing Social Inequalities? Charles Kaylor, Temple University Smoothing the Transition to Smarter Cities: An Analysis of Philadelphia's Freedom Rings Project
5:45 - 6:00	Closing
6:00 - 7:00	Reception and Poster Session

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June 11, 2013