• Covid-19 and the accelerating smart home 

      Maalsen, Sophia; Dowling, Robyn
      Published 2020
      Home, digital technologies and data are intersecting in new ways as responses to the COVID-19 pandemic emerge. We consider the data practices associated with COVID-19 responses and their implications for housing and home ...
      Article
    • Geographies of Digital Storytelling: Care and Harm in a Pandemic 

      McLean, Jessica; Maalsen, Sophia
      Published 2021
      Around the world, digital geographies have been renegotiated in the COVID-19 pandemic, from increased surveillance with digital devices to facilitation of new spatial boundaries for work and recreation. Digital storytelling ...
      Book chapter
    • The Hack: what is it and why it matters to urban studies 

      Maalsen, Sophia
      Published 2021
      This commentary advances the ‘hack’ as an urban concept. While the hack transcends existing literatures on the digital and informality, the hack is a distinctive concept and is being used systematically in new domains. I ...
      Open Access
      Preprint
    • Innovating urban governance: a research agenda 

      McGuirk, Pauline; Baker, Tom; Sisson, Alistair; Dowling, Robyn; Maalsen, Sophia
      Published 2022
      Urban governance innovation is being framed as an imperative to address complex urban and global challenges, triggering the adoption of novel institutional forms, approaches and techniques. Urban political geographers are ...
      Open Access
      Article
    • Interior Media Architecture: Using social media as a tool for Data Informed Design Solutions 

      Huang, Tracy; Fredericks, Joel; Maalsen, Sophia
      Published 2023
      The practice of media architecture has evolved as new technologies and media are changing the relationship between the built environment and the inhabitants. Despite the wide range of topics covered within the media ...
      Open Access
      Conference paper
    • The Life History of Sound 

      Maalsen, Sophia
      Published 2013-12-06
      Abstract In recent years, the emergence of cultures and practices of music-making associated with new music-making technologies has generated controversy and conflict, being both variously embraced and vilified. Just as ...
      Open Access
      Thesis
    • Rent and crisis: Old housing problems require a new state of exception in Australia 

      Maalsen, Sophia; Rogers, Dallas; Ross, Leo Patterson
      Published 2020
      The coronavirus pandemic is opening up a space for housing advocates and scholars to push for reforms to the private rental sector. Yet, we argue the Australian government has shown little commitment to addressing long-term, ...
      Article
    • ‘We’re the cheap smart home’: the actually existing smart home as rented and shared 

      Maalsen, Sophia
      Published 2022
      The definition and materialization of smart homes has changed over time in accordance with technological advancements and changing housing trajectories. Despite this, to date little research has problematized what different ...
      Open Access
      Article