The Mediapolis Q&A: Elizabeth Patton’s Easy Living
Television and media scholar Elana Levine interviews Elizabeth Patton on her recent book Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office.
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The Sun Island, reviewed: EUROPEAN GROWTH, IDEALS, ASPIRATIONS, AND INTRICACIES
by Floris Paalman
The Year That Was
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"Flickers of Sunlight"
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The Punch
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Teach Me How To Dougie
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The Margaret Atwood Renaissance
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Naz & Maalik
by Amy Corbin
Vol. 2 № 5
The Landscape as a Monument: Time, Space and Memory in the Geographies of Eastern Ukraine
Tanya Lokot interviews curators Oleksandra Pogrebnyak and Dmytro Chepurnyi about the Landscape As a Monument art residency programme and the changing geographical and cultural landscapes of Eastern Ukraine.
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Tosaka Jun’s Spatial Theory and Reflections on Film
Yoon Jeong Oh revisits Tosaka Jun’s critical interpretations of Japanese society and cultural criticism, arguing that in his writing on post-WWI Japan, Tosaka problematizes the everyday and reinstates heterogeneous temporalities by restoring the social space occupied by the people who live, work, and move about the city streets.
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Mediapolis Q&A: Germaine R. Halegoua’s The Digital City
Rahul Mukherjee leads a discussion with Germaine R. Halegoua on her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place.
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Inside or Out, Here or Elsewhere? Filming Locations in Pandemic Times
Helen Morgan Parmett and Ipek A. Çelik Rappas discuss the impact of Covid-19 on domestic and international film and television production.
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Mediapolis Q&A: Rahul Mukherjee’s Radiant Infrastructures
Germaine R. Halegoua leads a discussion with Rahul Mukherjee on his recent book Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty.
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Where We Care: Local Attention in a Platformized Pandemic
Scott Rodgers explores the novelties and continuities of emergent, very local uses of social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what they indicate about our deepening interdependencies with platforms.
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COVID Nights
Will Straw analyzes nocturnal videos that reveal the scale of night-time cultures happening during the COVID-19 lockdown and the role of the pandemic in highlighting ongoing policy debates about urban lighting, urban noise, and spectacle.
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Robotic Logics of Public Space in the COVID Pandemic
A group of interdisciplinary researchers from Monash University examines urban robotics as an emerging possibility for the colonization of public space due to the absence of humans in the lockdown city.
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Mobilizing Inter-Mediacies: Reflections on Urban Scenographies in (Post-)Lockdown Cities
Sigrid Merx and Nanna Verhoeff examine scenographic figurations of urban space in the physically distanced city to help us understand how protests and the pandemic have provoked questions and answers about how and for what public space can be used and by whom.
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