Content and visual analysis of the (new) representations of places (cities, neighbourhoods, homes) channelled through digital platforms, how these appeal to authenticity and the experiential dimension of tourism, and the consequences in terms of spectacularization, museification, self-falsification.

Analysis of the “politics” of algorithms and how the automatic/computational organization of tourism-related information mediates our relation with space and place, reproduces or alters existing spatial hierarchies, induces new regimes of visibility/invisibility, and creates “filter bubbles” (Pariser 2011).

Qualitative and ethnographic research on the biopolitics of digital platforms and digital reputation systems, how these impact users’ online/offline identities and practices, and the implications in terms of trust, self-branding and digital discrimination.

Analysis of the latest wave of logisticization of urban space and societal transformations at the urban level brought about by the acceleration of e-commerce, delivery and other platform-based economies, to explore the materiality of street-level urban changes within a context of platform capitalism and accelerated urbanism.

Ethnographic analysis of encounters and conflicts between permanent and temporary residents (tourists and migrants) and changing socio-spatial stratification of buildings and neighbourhoods, including transitions from traditional, indigenous composition and vertical articulation of tenements, to more fluid and multi-cultural articulations and co-existences, and how different urban and architectural features prove more or less suitable to STR and global tourism.

Case study of how STR platforms induce physical and immaterial, formal and informal changes and adaptations of the built environment, socio-material transformations of housing stocks (e.g. alterations and subdivisions), unregulated development of interstitial, low market-value properties, new ‘home cultures’ and life-styles, and production of new forms of public space.