About Me

Paolo Cardullo (@kiddingthecity) is an Independent Senior Researcher, ex fellow researcher at IN3, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona — awarded Beatriu de Pinòs, Marie-Curie Action cofund:

Grant no. 2018 BP 00068, 2020-2023 project title:

Technological Sovereignty through and beyond Barcelona Smart City.

 

Previously, I was postdoctoral researcher at the Technology Adoption Group, School of Business, and on The Programmable City at NIRSA, both at Maynooth University of Ireland. I have done teaching for many years and in different faculties, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, such as: Associate Lecturer @ Sociology Goldsmiths, University of London; Visiting Lecturer @ University of Modena (MA Economic and Public Policy), @ University of Antwerp (Smart City Summer School), @ the Royal Holloway London (MA in Cultural Geography), and @ CAPA London (UG in Urban Studies) →→→ see my projects on Open Science Framework →→→ and my profile on the Zotero Community →→→ my full academic CV is here

Currently, member of the Coalition for Independent Tech Research (CITR): Advancing, defending, and sustaining the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society

I am Zotero and FOSS evangelist, Linux user since 2006, yes!, it was Ubuntu 06 on Mac PPC. I was a ‘regular’ at the Wireless Wednesday workshops in Deptford, London. My current settings: the super fast and sturdy Linux Xubuntu on Lenovo ThinkPad X200 (I wrote my PhD thesis and book on it) & the all-rounded and reliable Linux Mint with Cinnamon on Lenovo X1 nano

Currently studying Catalan C1 (Cpnl) while promoting its social use everyday (VxL). Ashtanga Yoga practitioner, city rambler and hiker (senderisme)

 

My PhD thesis, Walking on the Rim: towards a geography of resentment, was discussed with Prof. Doug Harper, Duquesne University and IVSA president. My supervisors were Prof. Caroline Knowles and Prof. David Oswell — Sociology Goldsmiths

My Final Visual Project for the MA in Photography and Urban Culture is published on the Italian magazine Una Cittå n.144/2007

Soft Infrastructure of Decidim

We studied the Soft Infrastructure of the digital platform. Published under Creative Commons in Computational Culture Issue 9 (July 2023)

Open Wireless Network

OWN was a mesh of Wi-Fi radios set up by James Stevens and SPC in 2008 in Deptford, London SE8

The journey of platform citizenship

Platform citizenship represents the ongoing transformation of social and civic relations driven by software and its interconnections — enabled by the normalisation of software through digital platforms, data transactions and digital devices. Book chapter.

Zotpress and Me

Some of my readings added to My Zotero — rendered here through the ZotPress plug-in

Tot això… Els llibres en català que he llegit fins ara

Sobre de tot, m’agraden les novel·les històriques amb un fons negre (noir), especialment al voltant del mil·lenni

The Data-City after Metropolis OA paper

Humans have an enduring longing for the data-driven city, where autonomous decision-making algorithms and robots are fed by swaths of real-time data
New Open Access paper

#OCTV

Art installation with CCTV cameras at Goldsmiths University of London

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kiddingthecity is…

…a webspace created by Paolo Cardullo in 2007 during his PhD at Goldsmiths University of London. It has gone through a few updates building up on new projects and publications

One simple promise: I will never use AI to write a post