Infrastructures of Digital Civics: Transportation, Advocacy, and Mobile Computing

Abstract

Smart cities and digital democracy have begun to converge and create opportunities to enact a new digital civics. Much of the momentum behind these efforts derives from computing’s promise of improved efficiency resulting from the application of data to familiar problems. This application of technology to government holds a number of assumptions about government and citizenship, many of which rely on objective, rational, and consumption-based notions of service selection and delivery.