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Mobile Publics: Futures

Mobile publics or ‘issue publics’ are coming of age. After more than a decade of gathering in hybrid digital public spaces, what are the promise, premises, risks of mobile publics in the future? With Belgians responding to calls not to tweet about emergency operations during the #brusselslockdown with images of cats, what are the effects […]

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A Century of Disasters: Disaster Mobility Futures

  The fact that we live in a century of disasters is giving rise to calls for exceptional mobilities for disaster risk management. This ranges from physically mobilising resources (pumps, emergency responders travelling to global emergencies) to the mobilisation of digital humanitarians for crisis mapping to  calls for unprecedented interoperability between public, government and commercial information […]

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