Session organisers: Si Jie Ivin Yeo (University of Oxford), Gillian Rose (University of Oxford)

If "the urban is the embodiment of difference and the machinic production of difference" (Simone 2022: 16), how are digital technologies entangled in the emergence of urban difference? The digital has become a core feature of contemporary urban life, not only shaping the way inhabitants live and work in the city but also giving rise to new forms of posthuman subjectivity. This session focuses on the multiplicity of the everyday experiencing of digitally mediated cities, exploring the deepening relationships between diverse digital technologies and different forms of urban life and living. More broadly, it seeks to foster discussions in digital and urban geography around what everyday life in digitally mediated cities entails, its accompanying social and political implications, as well as what kind of posthuman urban life is valued in the digital era.

We invite empirical, theoretical, and conceptual papers on topics including but by no means not limited to:
• The political and social implications of the digital mediation of life in cities, including gender, race, dis/ability, class and other forms of difference.
• The atmospheric and affective aspects and implications of urban digital mediation.
• Embodied and embedded accounts of everyday encounters with digital technologies in cities.
• Uneven urban geographies of digital mediation and their implications on everyday life.
• The role of digital technologies in the making or unmaking of posthuman subjectivity.
• Novel methodological approaches for examining the digital mediation of everyday urban life.

We are hoping for 15 minute, in person presentations with plenty of time for discussion. Please send a title, 250-word abstract and your full contact details to Si Jie Ivin Yeo ([log in to unmask]) and Gillian Rose ([log in to unmask]) by Wednesday 14 February.

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