#3 Talking Smart Cities with the New School's Shannon Mattern

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In this episode, Molly talks with Dr. Shannon Mattern about New York City's LinkNYC program and the troubles it has faced in trying to provide public access to the internet on the city streets. The discussion revolves around how involving librarians and archivists in the planning process could bring some wisdom to smart city developments. Here is a link to a rough transcript of the episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12rbIr4PFTEqf2Bgv9fBqWNDF1dfnWuAUQTK-M11Ww3w/edit?usp=sharing Village Voice article: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/google-is-transforming-nycs-payphones-into-a-personalized-propaganda-engine-8822938 Shannon Mattern's article "Public In/Formation in the journal Places: https://placesjournal.org/article/public-information/#ref_4 Mayor DeBlasio on shutting off LinkNYC browsing privileges for WNYC: http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/741-16/transcript-mayor-de-blasio-appears-live-wnyc Nick Pinto's article "Google Is Transforming NYC's Payphones Into a 'Personalized Propaganda Engine'" for the Village Voice: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/google-is-transforming-nycs-payphones-into-a-personalized-propaganda-engine-8822938 Article by Elinor Ostrom about the knowledge commons: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262083577_sch_0001.pdf More information about LinkNYC: https://www.link.nyc/index.html Tools used to record this podcast: Blue Yeti microphone: http://www.bluemic.com/products/yeti/ Transcribe: https://transcribe.wreally.com/app Reaper: http://www.reaper.fm/ Intro Music is "Magic" by Otis MacDonald from the YouTube Audio Library