Mobile City

<p><b>In </b><b><i>Mobile City</i></b><b> Jordan H. Kraemer charts the rise of social media and an emerging knowledge class in early-2000s Berlin. </b>Many young Germans and EU-Ausl��nder (foreigners from other EU countries) attracted to Berlin's vibrant post-unification counterculture moved to the city just as they began using social media like Facebook and Twitter. Social media and Berlin alike became hip sites for urban middle-class aspirations but as Kraemer accounts social media users became embroiled in contestations over class mobility and identity as urban planners and developers remade Berlin into a neoliberal creative city.</p><p>The rise of this creative city involved scale-making projects that fused imaginaries of digital technologies with the expansive impulses of late capital: a vision of world peace and economic cooperation through global interconnection. But in Berlin scalar transformations were lived out through ordinary practices that reconfigured daily sociality mobility and urban space.<i> Mobile City</i> explores how digital media practices forged emergent scales like the global and supranational yet were equally complicit in potential European disintegration and illiberalism.</p>