Smart city infrastructures enable the routine interleaving and integration of diverse activities, including new ways to play, be playful, participate. We discuss three examples: (1) citizen-based water quality monitoring, which combines outdoor exercise social interaction with safeguarding public supplies, (2) a digital scavenger hunt, experiences community arts festival shared reflections abou...

Prior research determines whether politicians at rallies make programmatic, clientelist or personalist appeals. We argue that this reductive approach obscures the variety of meaning-making rallies. offer a vision as complex communicative events, which multiple actors co- and counter-produce messages in numerous ways. Nonetheless, we there are patterns Rallies produced accordance with genre guid...