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Scott Rodgers

Scott Rodgers

Scott Rodgers is Audio Editor for Mediapolis, where he hosts the Mediapolis Now podcast. He is Reader in Media and Geography in the School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication at Birkbeck, University of London, and co-director of Birkbeck's Centre for Creative AI. His research works at the interface of media and geography, in recent years on the urban and local geographies of social media and digital platforms, and increasingly on how AI is becoming the next mediating infrastructure of everyday urban life. This concern with the ordinary character of mediation runs across his work, including Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Perspectives on Media (Peter Lang, 2017), co-edited with Tim Markham.

Angular fragments of a nineteenth-century city plan, its regular chamfered blocks cut apart and rotated to different angles, radiating from a dense dark cluster at the centre. Hundreds of fine plotted lines, some red and blue, run across and through them: horizontal and vertical bundles, long sweeping curves, and stray marks trailing off toward the empty white edges.
Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 11September 7, 2026<September 9, 2026

The Synthetic City: An Introduction

Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo P. Henriques and Sara Trentham-Black
AI has arrived in cities, but rarely as spectacle. This introduction to The Synthetic City dossier asks how agency gets attributed, what AI models learn and thereby settle in advance, and why the synthetic city may turn out to be more banal than dramatic.
Mediapolis Now, no. 1, vol. 11June 17, 2026<June 18, 2026

Voices Episode 9: Chris Lukinbeal on Cinema, Cartography and the Spaces Between

Scott Rodgers
In this episode of the Mediapolis Now Voices series, we speak with Chris Lukinbeal.
no. 1, Q & A, vol. 11June 17, 2026<September 1, 2026

The Mediapolis Q&A: Chris Lukinbeal’s Cinematic Cartography: Scale, Analysis, Topography

Chris Lukinbeal and Scott Rodgers
[An audio version of this interview has been published simultaneously on the Mediapolis Now podcast.]

Scott Rodgers: Chris, your book Cinematic Cartography brings …

Dossiers, Mediapolis Now, no. 1, vol. 11June 15, 2026<June 18, 2026

Voices Episode 10: Small-Gauge Scholarship at Ten, with Erica Stein, Elizabeth Patton and Adam Ochonicky

Erica Stein, Elizabeth Patton, Adam Ochonicky and Scott Rodgers
This episode of the Mediapolis Now Voices series is a special one, marking the 10th Anniversary of Mediapolis, where we speak with Erica Stein, Elizabeth Patton and Adam Ochonicky.
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Mediapolis Now, no. 1, vol. 10April 29, 2025<April 29, 2025

Voices Episode 8: Burcu Baykurt on Google Urbanism

Scott Rodgers
In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Burcu Baykurt discusses with Scott Rodgers her longstanding interests in Google as an increasingly influential agent in urban affairs, as well as her efforts to rethink ‘test-bed urbanism’ through the local.
no. 4, Q & A, vol. 9December 16, 2024<December 16, 2024

The Mediapolis Q&A: Caitlin Bruce on Voices in Aerosol

Caitlin Bruce and Scott Rodgers
Scott Rodgers talks to Caitlin Bruce about her recent book, Voices in Aerosol.
Mediapolis Now, no. 4, vol. 9December 16, 2024<December 16, 2024

Voices Episode 7: Caitlin Bruce on Graffiti Culture and Urban Institutional Attunement

Scott Rodgers
In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Caitlin Bruce discusses with Scott Rodgers her recent book exploring shifting judgments of graffiti culture in urban Mexico, and how the book has taken on new life as socially-engaged scholarship.
Mediapolis Now, no. 2, vol. 9June 25, 2024<June 25, 2024

Voices Episode 6: Myria Georgiou on Competing Claims to Digital Urban Humanity

Scott Rodgers
In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Myria Georgiou discusses with Scott Rodgers her recent book exploring the resurgence of competing humanisms in digital cities discourse.
no. 2, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 9June 25, 2024<June 25, 2024

The Mediapolis Q&A: Myria Georgiou’s Being Human in Digital Cities

Scott Rodgers and Myria Georgiou
Myria Georgiou talks to Scott Rodgers about her latest book, Being Human in Digital Cities.
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Mediapolis Now, no. 1, vol. 9April 25, 2024<April 25, 2024

Voices Episode 5: Rebecca Ross on Postcodes, Communication Design and Urban Media

Scott Rodgers
In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Rebecca Ross discusses with Scott Rodgers her exploration of postcodes as spatial media, and the paradoxical disciplinary distance between communication design and media studies.
Mediapolis Now, no. 4, vol. 8November 22, 2023<December 14, 2023

Voices Episode 4: Monica Degen and Gillian Rose on The New Urban Aesthetic

Scott Rodgers
In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Monica Degen and Gillian Rose discuss with Scott Rodgers their recent book exploring the emerging and varied digitalisation of urban aesthetics.
no. 4, Q & A, vol. 8November 18, 2023<November 22, 2023

The Mediapolis Q&A: Monica Degen and Gillian Rose’s The New Urban Aesthetic

Scott Rodgers, Monica Degen and Gillian Rose
Monica Degen and Gillian Rose discuss their book The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change with Scott Rodgers.
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    • Volume 1 – 2015/2016
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