Jason Luger

My research cuts across urban, political, and critical human geography and explores questions of urban space, place, power, politics, and platforms. I draw from mixed methods including site-based and digital ethnography and social media analysis, through a comparative urban lens. I seek a more just, inclusive, and equitable built and digital urban environment. 

In particular, I focus on:

• The relationship between urban public space and digital space, and questions of scale and networks
• The political geographies of the right wing and authoritarianism 
• Online and offline activism and resistance (especially art-led and LGBTQ movements)
• The relationship between digital platforms and the formation of identity and community (such as the way online affinity groups use and relate to urban place)
• Creative geographies as both anchored in place and digitally networked