ABSTRACT
This chapter claims that to know and understand cities through data requires a conception of who and where are digital subjects and the power relations through which they become digital citizens and data about them are generated. It focuses through a conceptualization of the power relations that bring both digital citizens and cyberspace into being. The data of cities are ultimately the outcome of relations and struggles between and amongst people and technologies, relations and struggles that bring into being both digital citizens and what it will define as cyberspace. Cyberspace was initially conceived in literary texts as another world and in political texts as an independent space where 'digital citizens' were inventing new ways of conducting themselves politically. The everyday social life of communicating, interacting and networking therefore can be understood as part of the struggles and contestations over the emergence of this new political subjectivity, that of the digital citizen.
