Introducing Mediapolis Now
Mediapolis Now is the new podcast channel for our journal, hosting interviews, event recordings and audio essays exploring the junction of cities, culture and media.
Voices Episode 1: Zlatan Krajina and Deborah Stevenson on the Histories and Futures of Urban Media and Communication
In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Zlatan Krajina and Deborah Stevenson discuss the processes and tensions of academic knowledge production in the fast-changing and interdisciplinary research area of urban media studies.
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.
Doubly Displacing Media and the City
In this concluding response, Scott Rodgers explores the roundtable's apparent consensus that the intersection of media and the urban should be approached by counter-intuitively displacing both of these key concepts.
Theorizing Media after the Urban Revolution
In the final opening essay, Scott Rodgers argues that conceiving of the urban as processual, amorphous, relational and unbounded provokes a critical rethinking around why, where and how we study urbanized media.
The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory: An Introduction
In this roundtable introduction , guest editor Scott Rodgers introduces the main thematic issues and questions to be addressed.
Ethnographic Vignettes From ICA 2016
Large 21st century conferences, such as ICA 2016 in Fukuoka, evoke the impressive growth and diversification of academia within, between, and across disciplines. Yet their "poison", if you will, is that they are so very large and up-scaled: potentially alienating; and clearly struggling with logistical complexity.
Small-Gauge as Remediating and Metamedial
With this entry in our ongoing small-gauge roundtable, Scott Rodgers examines how the divide between digital and analog media can help us think in a critical and self-reflective way about the form and the practice of small-gauge scholarship.
Small-gauge as Environmental and Ordinary
With this contribution to this issue's roundtable discussion, Scott Rodgers prompts us to think about how small-gauge modes of communication and scholarship are reconstituting the "environment" of the academic world.