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Scott Rodgers

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).

Deep Dives, no. 3, vol. 5August 27, 2020

Where We Care: Local Attention in a Platformized Pandemic

By Scott Rodgers

On Thursday March 19, 2020, a few days after Britain had entered into lockdown, a recording was circulating through WhatsApp groups. The male voice, sounding mostly credulous, though marked by a subtle tinge of humor that could easily be missed, …

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no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 1December 12, 2016

Doubly Displacing Media and the City

By Scott Rodgers

[Ed. note: this post is part of a roundtable discussion on “The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

The …

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no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 1November 15, 2016

Theorizing Media after the Urban Revolution

By Scott Rodgers

[Ed. note: this post is part of a roundtable discussion on “The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

Worries …

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no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 1November 14, 2016

The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory: An Introduction

By Scott Rodgers

[Ed. note: this post is part of a roundtable discussion on “The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

If …

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Counterparts, no. 4, vol. 1September 8, 2016

Ethnographic Vignettes From ICA 2016

By Scott Rodgers

The long line of delegates, waiting to access the lunch buffet, is like the latest world record attempt at toppling dominos. Thinking myself to be clever, I promptly arrived at 12pm, only to then track backwards along this twisting line, …

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