a journal of cities and culture
Wendy Wenxin Zhang, the 2026 recipient of the SCMS Urbanism/Geography/Architecture SIG’s annual Graduate Student Essay Award, deploys multifaceted research methods in a Deep Dive on the mediated and technological facets of fisheries in China.
In this episode of the Mediapolis Now Voices series, we speak with Chris Lukinbeal.
[An audio version of this interview has been published simultaneously on the Mediapolis Now podcast.] Scott Rodgers: Chris, your book Cinematic Cartography brings together…
Cortland Rankin speaks to Michael Dwyer about his book Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt
Michael D. Dwyer introduces some key texts on the “Rust Belt.”
Adam Ochonicky introduces this issue’s dossier, “Mediapolis at 10 and Beyond,” and shares some updates about the journal.
Erica Stein traces out how multiple conceptions of scholarly “conversation” shaped the founding of Mediapolis and remain central to the journal’s identity.
Brendan juxtaposes Mediapolis’s founding vision—to occupy a space between blog and peer-reviewed journal—with the current media environment in which social media, single-authored newsletters, and platforms like podcasts, Discord, and Substack have reshaped notions of “middle-state publishing.
Noelle Griffis discusses pedagogical uses of Mediapolis content and proposes several enhancements of the Student Voices section and On Teaching section.
Alan O’Leary pays tribute to Isabelle McNeill (1979–2025) and introduces her video essay Drones in the Banlieue.
From playable to instagrammable: Paul O’Connor, Julian Mcallister Groves, Yingxin Du and Tina Sze Nga Ho trace the ‘colorful’ history of the Choi Hung Public housing estate, and what that might mean for its future.
Are we playing … or are we being played? In this conceptual contribution, Conor Moloney maps the tensions between public and counterpublic, culture and counterculture, play and counterplay in relation to urban experience.
