Automatic sensation: environmental sensors in the digital city

Gabrys, Jennifer. 2007. Automatic sensation: environmental sensors in the digital city. The Senses & Society, 2(2), pp. 189-200. ISSN 1745-8927 [Article]

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This paper discusses the use of environmental sensors, wireless networks and mobile media as technologies of sensation in the city. While these devices enable a “digital city,” in many respects they appear to be immaterial, operating beyond sense. Further, drawing on two case studies presented by the Digital Cities project in Montreal, the paper considers how applications of environmental sensors and mobile media give rise to new conditions and questions for how we configure sense in the “digital city.” The paper ultimately finds that sensors direct us toward new sites, assemblages and practices of sensation within the urban sensorium. (Abstract).

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.2752/174589307X203083

Additional Information:

This is the post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) version. It does not use publisher's layout or pagination.

Keywords:

environmental sensors, digital city, wireless networks, urban sensorium, locative sensation

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

Dates:

DateEvent
July 2007Published

Item ID:

263

Date Deposited:

16 Jan 2008 16:53

Last Modified:

29 Apr 2020 15:27

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/263

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