ABSTRACT
Emergent, networked urbanism consists of constellations of people, devices, systems, codes, laws, and regulations that enable mobility and communication to be produced, distributed, and consumed. This chapter sketches three frames for thinking about global networked urbanism: (1) global kinetic elites’ day-to-day uses of mobile medialities; (2) the global shadows in which technologies and infrastructures for networked urbanism are appropriated from below and mobilized across spaces of exclusion or marginalization; and (3) the frictions and connectivity between these two forms of networked urbanism, showing how they in fact make up one global differential space which we need to study in its entirety.
