Online Patriots and Traitors: The War, Authoritarianism, and State-Sponsored Digital Vigilantism in Russia
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Maxim Alyukov looks at how the Putin regime is encouraging digital vigilantism to crack down on anti-war dissent
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The Mediapolis Q&A: Marcos Dias’s The Machinic City
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In this installment of our Q&A series, digital media and society scholar and Editorial Board member Tanya Lokot interviews Marcos Dias on his recent book The Machinic City: Media, Performance and Participation.
Mediapolis Q&A: Germaine R. Halegoua’s The Digital City
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Rahul Mukherjee leads a discussion with Germaine R. Halegoua on her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place.
The Narrative Landscape of Google Street View
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In this post, Aroussiak Gabrielian explores Google Street View as an experimental medium, asking how it offers us new narrative forms and new subjective possibilities for interacting with our environments.
Researching the Urban as a Human Endeavour
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In this fourth roundtable response, Giorgia Aiello suggests that media theory offers a distinctive understanding of the nature and potential of the urban as a human endeavour.
Right to the City, or Compulsion to Connect?
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In the third essay, Myria Georgiou reflects on the politicized relationships between the right to the city and emergent compulsions to communicate digitally.