Rob Kitchin数字生活与数据驱动的智慧城市主义——一项城市社会地理学议程

Digital lives and data-driven smart urbanism of Rob Kitchin:An agenda of urban social geography

数字技术与大数据正改变着城市社会与日常生活的诸多方面,成为人文地理学以及其他社会科学研究新的增长点。为了探讨数字数据背景下城市社会地理的最新国际热点,论文从爱尔兰梅努斯大学社会科学研究所地理学教授Rob Kitchin关于数字生活与数据驱动的智慧城市主义研究出发,梳理其主要贡献并借以西方视角为城市社会地理学寻求启示和中国化方向。首先,对社会地理学前沿代表人物Rob Kitchin的学术生命历程、研究内容及其与时代发展的关系进行路径分析和网络分析。其次,阐述他在数字生活与智慧城市上的学术观点、理论方法和实践应用。尤其是,解读慢速计算思想并探索智慧城市生活的前沿话题,包括数据认识论、工具算法的人本化以及城市技术与社会生活的互动等内容。最后,总结并批判地指出数据融合、数据共享开发、数字鸿沟与包容等亟待讨论的问题,提出人文地理学、城市社会地理学与城市规划的发展见解以及同期研究的中国路径。

Digital technologies and big data are transforming many aspects of urban society and daily lives,which is becoming a new growth area for research in human geography as well as other fields of social sciences.In order to explore the latest international hotspots of urban social geography in the digital context,this article started from the digital lives and data-driven smart urbanism research of Rob Kitchin,a professor of geography and former director of the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute at Maynooth University in Ireland,and examined his main contributions to seek inspiration and Chinese orientation for urban social geography from a Western perspective.First,we carried out a path and network analysis of the academic career,research content,and their relationships of Rob Kitchin.Second,this article elaborated his academic views,theoretical methodologies,and practical applications from the perspectives of digital lives and smart urbanism.The article also interpreted the core theoretical perspectives of slow computing and explored cutting-edge themes in the smart life,including data theory,humanization of algorithms,and the interaction between urban technology and social lives.Finally,we drew a critical conclusion and pointed out the relevant research issues that need to be discussed urgently,such as data coupling,data sharing,and digital inclusion,among others.Additionally,the article provided some insights into the development of urban social geography,urban planning,and Chinese avenues for contemporaneous research.