Journalism for Civic Communication in Urban Spaces

The two-year project is funded by AUFF as a starting grant. It addresses a gap between journalism studies and smart city research, taking the datafication of urban spaces as an opportunity for journalism to go beyond the “informed citizen” model of its audience. The project shall map and evaluate approaches to how journalists, citizens, cities, data providers and civic tech NGO’s can work together on a local level to shape infrastructures for civic communication in the connected city. It will focus on examples from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.