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DLA Conference 2015 | Stefan Höffken | Urbanophil, TU Kaiserslautern

BLOGGING THE

CITYDLA Conference 2015 | Stefan Höffken | Urbanophil, TU Kaiserslautern



The web changed everything!


Web 2.0low-costlow threshold technologynetworking technologynetwork organisationcollaboration

>> user = prosumer


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urban blogging



since 2006non-profit15 membersover 40 authorsnearly 4.000 articles> 20.000 pageviews/month> 5.000 follower facebook

Twitter: @urbanophil


Blogging the CityKonferenz 2011

Blogging the CityNeue Öffentlichkeiten für Stadt und

Architektur



urban blogs arelow-threshold gateways

for urban topics


urban blogs aremultipliers


»Finally, the culture of sharing tactics online has grown tremendously and is becoming more sophisticated. Thanks

to web-based tools, a blogger can share something tactical in Dallas and

have it re-blogged, tweeted, facebooked etc. in dozens of cities

within minutes.«

(Guide of Tactical Urbanism)


urban blogsare social sensors


urban blogs arean important partof a new public


Urban blogs pave the way fornew forms of bottom-up

participationand city making!


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1) new role of user2) cheap & low threshold

technology3) ubiquitous knowledge


context smart cities


„The raw material and the means of producing the smart city – smartphones, social software, open-source hardware,

and cheap bandwidth – are widely democratized and inexpensive. Combining

and recombining them in endless variations is cheap, easy, and fun“

(A. Townsend 2013: 9).


„Technology empowersordinary people.“

(Reynolds (2006) „An Army of Davids“)


urban prosumer





user-generated city


Thank you

Stefan Höffken | www.urbanophil.net





web logbookweblogblog

blogger (blog editor)




urban blogs supportthe creation of open networks


German Blogosphere–

Quo vadis?


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