capitalism

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 23, 2018

Platform Urbanism: An Introduction

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Platform Urbanism.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

Talk about ‘platforms’ is all-pervasive. Used as an …

Micro to Macro in Hong Kong and Shanghai: How Media Cities View Mega Screens

By Celia Grubba

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Student Voices section on Hong Kong, Shanghai, cities, screens, and spectacle. For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

In 2010, the …

Infrastructural Inequalities and Digital Divides

By Kortnee Tilson

This paper aims to explore digital media infrastructures and their relationship to uneven distributions of power and geopolitical inequality. Much of the hope for the digital age was rooted in the idea of an interconnected “global village,”¹Marshall McLuhan …