Digital Geographies, edited by James Ash, Rob Kitchin and Agnieszka Leszczynski, has been published by Sage.  The book provides an overview of how digital technologies have become part of everyday life, mediating tasks such as work, travel, consumption, production, and leisure, and are having increasingly profound effects on phenomena that are of immediate concern to geographers. These include: the production of space, spatiality and mobilities; the processes, practices, and forms of mapping; the contours of spatial knowledge and imaginaries; and, the formation and enactment of spatial knowledge politics  Similarly, there are distinct geographies of digital media such as those of the internet, games, and social media that have become indispensable to geographic practice and scholarship across sub-disciplines, regardless of conceptual approach. The book is divided into five sections.

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Introducing Digital Geographies – James Ash, Rob Kitchin and Agnieszka Leszczynski

PART 1 Digital Spaces
Chapter 2 Spatialities – Agnieszka Leszczynski
Chapter 3 Urban – Andres Luque-Ayala
Chapter 4 Rural – Martin Dodge
Chapter 5 Mapping – Matthew W Wilson
Chapter 6 Mobilities – Tim Schwanen

PART 2 Digital Methods
Chapter 7 Epistemologies – Jim Thatcher
Chapter 8 Data and Data Infrastructures – Rob Kitchin and Tracey Lauriault
Chapter 9 Qualitative Methods and Geohumanities – Meghan Cope
Chapter 10 Participatory Methods and Citizen Science – Hilary Geoghegan
Chapter 11 Cartography and Geographic Information Systems – David O’Sullivan
Chapter 12 Statistics, Modelling and Data Science – Daniel Arribas-Bel

PART 3 Digital Cultures
Chapter 13 Media and Popular Culture – James Ash
Chapter 14 Subject/ivities – Sam Kinsley
Chapter 15 Representation and Mediation – Gillian Rose

PART 4 Digtial Economies
Chapter 16 Labour – Mark Graham and Mohammad Anwar
Chapter 17 Industries – Matt Zook
Chapter 18 Sharing Economy – Lizzie Richardson
Chapter 19 Traditional Industries – Bruno Moriset

PART 5 Digital Politics
Chapter 20 Development – Dorothea Kleine
Chapter 21 Governance – Rob Kitchin
Chapter 22 Civics – Taylor Shelton
Chapter 23 Ethics – Linnet Taylor
Chapter 24 Knowledge Politics – Jason C Young
Chapter 25 Geopolitics – Jeremy Crampton

Paolo Cardullo has published a new Programmable City working paper (No. 40) via OSF: Smart approach to the commons? A case for a public Internet infrastructure. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/4XKCA

Abstract – The paper advances some critical reflections, and contributes to the debate, around commons and commoning in the smart city. It suggests that so-called ‘smart commons’ – that is, forms of ownership of data and digital infrastructure increasingly central to the discourse around appropriation and co-production of smart technologies – tend to focus more on the outcome (open data or free software) rather than the process which maintains and reproduces such commons. Thus, the paper makes a positional argument for a ‘smart approach’ to the commons, advocating for a central role for the public as a stakeholder in nurturing and maintaining urban commons in the smart city. The argument is illustrated through three brief case studies which reflect on instances of commons and commoning in relation to the implementation of public Internet infrastructure.