As such, by encouraging a particular kind of re-use of vacant space, LLs are used actively to bolster the Smart City discourse, as part of the more general neoliberalization of urban political economy.
If we turn to the media coverage of the smart grid discourse, what we can see traversing categories like sustainable energy, smart grid, electric cars and energy efficiency is the emergence of a "discourse coalition" [49] taking shape around niche level innovations for components of smart grid technologies and systems that mirror the policy narrative identified above.
Tanya Indiana, a journalist, wrote an essay on "Why Smart Gals Love Seamonster," a discourse on Mr. Stevenson's relation to class, music and art.
While the media discourse on smart grids is certainly in the early stages of development and diffusion, there is something of an inexorable quality about the discourse.
Thus, in reviewing the emerging discourse on smart learning, our methodology has been to check to what extent the terminology shows such characteristics.
As of yet, based on analysis of the cases presented herein, the space for public discourse on smart energy transitions in regions and cities has not yet emerged.
Although the public discourse on smart grid technologies is very much in its infancy in Ireland, its rhetorical framing is very similar to that in both the wind farm and infrastructure controversies.
On popular Pages, comments would come so fast that there was no chance for meaningful discourse, and anything smart you said got buried immediately.
There remains, however, an unfortunate distinction between "smart" and "dumb" in the discourse which often elides the fact that the electricity grid is in fact a multi-layered infrastructure to which many elements have been added through course of history [5].
In this paper, our concern has been to connect two discourses: research into smart learning and digital technology standardization.
