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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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
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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Media and the Physically Distanced City
In their introductory essay, dossier editors Dave Colangelo and Zach Melzer examine how the pandemic and BLM protests offer a lens into the makeup, visuality, and legibility of urban environments and their relationship with various forms of media.
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The Mediapolis Q&A: Priya Jaikumar on Where Histories Reside
In this issue’s Mediapolis Q&A, film scholar Sushmita Banerji interviews Priya Jaikumar on her most recent book Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space.
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Revisiting Lists in a Time of Rebellion
What are the potentials and pitfalls of the list in a moment of rebellion? Malini Guha looks at the cultural politics of the anti-racist film list in the context of Black Lives Matter.
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