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Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 5August 24, 2020

COVID Nights

By Will Straw

[Ed. note: This is the final article in the dossier, “Media and the Physically Distanced City,” which examines how the pandemic and BLM protests offer a lens into the makeup, visuality, and legibility of urban environments and their relationship … Read More

Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 2, vol. 5June 29, 2020

China under Lockdown: Social Media and Labor Conditions during the Covid-19 Pandemic

By Anan Zhou

[Ed. note: This is the final installment of a series of reports on the COVID-19 pandemic from global cities.]

Internet-Based Mutual Aid

Considering the risk of traffic control following the lockdown of Wuhan, I decided to leave my …

Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 2, vol. 5June 22, 2020

COVID-19, Labor Mobility, and Care Work in China

By Yang Zhan

[Ed. note: This is part of a series of reports on the COVID-19 pandemic from global cities.]

Since the 1990s, China has implemented various policies to reduce friction in the movement of labor and capital in order to insert itself …

Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 2, vol. 5June 16, 2020

The Last Chronicle: From Peking University Students to the Indigenous People of Alto Solimões

By Francisco Foot Hardman

[Ed. note: This is part of a series of reports on the COVID-19 pandemic from global cities.]

When some of my colleagues from IEL-Unicamp who study Indigenous Languages and Education, among them Filomena Sândalo and Wilmar D’Angelis, sent a …

Deep Dives, no. 1, vol. 5March 6, 2020

Assembling the Cosmopublic: Art Intelligence and Object-Oriented Citizenship

By Hai Ren

Climate change, pandemics, and other global threats have forced humankind to confront its own inevitable extinction – and critically, these problems involve not merely humans but also nonhuman beings. The United Nations calls upon cities around the world to make …