Metropolitics

Geolocation Among Teenage Peers: Between Play, Control, and Gendered Vulnerability

Yann Bruna & translated by Oliver Waine — 2025-03-28T06:00:00Z

Geolocation practices among teenagers are ambivalent, combining aspects of both play and surveillance. Yann Bruna examines Snap Map use, which exposes girls in particular to new forms of vulnerability online and in urban spaces.
Whether used in the workplace, within families or in romantic relationships, geolocation tracking has become an increasingly popular way of monitoring the activities of others over the last 10 years, propelled in particular by the widespread use of smartphones—the

- From the Field / teenagers, geolocation, youth, communication technology, surveillance, technology

New Orleans Post-Katrina: the Uses of the Web in Times of Crisis

Jean Samuel Bordreuil & translated by Oliver Waine — 2011-06-24T05:53:00Z

What is the role of the internet media, particularly blogs, in mobilizing action in the aftermath of a major disaster? Jean Samuel Bordreuil examines the case of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and demonstrates the importance of these resources not just in organizing initial aid, but also in sustaining momentum for the mobilization of civic action.
---- Series: New Orleans: The Post-Katrina Years How does a population hit by a disaster mobilize the digital resources it possesses in

- From the Field / catastrophe, communication technology, New Orleans, Katrina, disaster, collective action, hurricane

Three questions to Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett & Philippe Simay & Stéphane Tonnelat — 2010-12-15T08:24:35Z

Richard Sennett writes about cities, labor, and culture. He teaches sociology at New York University and at the London School of Economics. He is one of the most prominent scholars on the city, from Antique Greece to contemporary New York, and of the relations between its manifold public spaces and the human body. We hear his take on new technology and cultural expressions in Paris's public spaces.
Richard Sennett answers three quick questions:
Question 1
Do new technologies of

- Interviews / public space, communication technology, culture, video