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%T Data-Driven Participation: Algorithms, Cities, Citizens, and Corporate Control %A Tenney, Matthew %A Sieber, Renee %J Urban Planning %N 2 %P 101-113 %V 1 %D 2016 %K big data; civic engagement; data-driven; local government; participation; smart city; urban planning; VGI; volunteered geographic information %@ 2183-7635 %X In this paper, we critically explore the interplay of algorithms and civic participation in visions of a city governed by equation, sensor and tweet. We begin by discussing the rhetoric surrounding techno-enabled paths to participatory democracy. This leads to us interrogating how the city is impacted by a discourse that promises to harness social/human capital through data science. We move to a praxis level and examine the motivations of local planners to adopt and increasingly automate forms of VGI as a form of citizen engagement. We ground theory and praxis with a report on the uneven impacts of algorithmic civic participation underway in the Canadian city of Toronto. %C MISC %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info