Where We Care: Local Attention in a Platformized Pandemic
On Thursday March 19, 2020, a few days after Britain had entered into lockdown, a recording was circulating through WhatsApp groups. The male voice, …
Scott Rodgers is Senior Lecturer in Media Theory in the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. His research specialises in the relationships of media and cities and the geographies of communication. Scott also has broad interests in media production practices, digital and networked technologies, urban politics and ethnographic methodologies. His publications have appeared in journals such as Society and Space, City and Community, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Space and Culture and Journalism: Theory Practice and Criticism. With Tim Markham, he is co-editor of Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Perspectives on Media (Peter Lang, forthcoming 2017).
On Thursday March 19, 2020, a few days after Britain had entered into lockdown, a recording was circulating through WhatsApp groups. The male voice, …
[Ed. note: this post is part of a roundtable discussion on “The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory.” For more background …
[Ed. note: this post is part of a roundtable discussion on “The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory.” For more background …
[Ed. note: this post is part of a roundtable discussion on “The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory.” For more background …
The long line of delegates, waiting to access the lunch buffet, is like the latest world record attempt at toppling dominos. Thinking myself to …