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Janina Schupp

Janina Schupp

Janina Schupp is the SOUTHWORKS Career Development Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford and teaches in the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford. Previously, Janina was an Affiliated Lecturer in Architecture and the Moving Image at the University of Cambridge, where she completed her MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures and PhD in Architecture During this time, Janina held a British Research Council Fellowship at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, a Camargo Foundation Fellowship in France and a Visiting Scholarship at the University of Nanjing. Janina’s research is highly interdisciplinary and explores how our urban existence is captured and shaped by screen media. She is particularly interested in the global challenges affecting urban environments and populations and how these can be analysed and responded to via moving images and digital technologies. Recent publications include the co-edited book The Everyday in Visual Culture (Routledge 2022).

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 9September 30, 2024<October 4, 2024

Introduction: Screen Media and ‘Middling Cities’ – Questioning Hierarchies, Dominant Narratives and Negative Associations 

Lavinia Brydon, Sanele KaNtshingana and Janina Schupp
In their dossier introduction, the editors discuss the significance of “middling cities” to debates about media and urbanism, and make a case for the importance of looking beyond metropolitan centres and global media capitals.

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