Scott Rodgers & Susan Moore

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 Cultural Studies, Space and Culture and Media, Culture and Society. With Tim Markham, he is co-editor of Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Perspectives on Media (Peter Lang, 2017). Twitter: @rodgers_scott

Susan Moore is Associate Professor in Urban Development and Planning in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Her research interests include the relational geographies of urban (and suburban) development and built form, with a particular interest in the international proliferation of New Urbanism. Her research focuses on urban development and governance models and the circulation of so called 'best practices'. Recent projects include an analysis of the London 2012 Learning Legacy Agenda and an examination of the use of social media platforms in relation to local urban change in East London. Twitter: @moorephology

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3November 10, 2018<November 9, 2018

The Horizons of Platformed Urban Politics

In this wrap up to the Platform Urbanism roundtable, Scott Rodgers and Susan Moore argue that horizons of a platformed urban politics should entail critical engagement and practice.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 23, 2018<November 8, 2018

Platform Urbanism: An Introduction

Scott Rodgers and Susan Moore introduce a new Roundtable on urban platforms by asking how platforms may be understood as new forms of urban infrastructure.