Wanghong Urbanism: Towards a New Urban-Digital Spectacle

Zhang, Amy Y., Asa Roast, and Carwyn Morris

Deep Dives, no. 4, vol. 7November 30, 2022<January 25, 2023

Wanghong Urbanism: Towards a New Urban-Digital Spectacle

by Amy Y. Zhang, Asa Roast, and Carwyn Morris

What happens when a place achieves celebrity status on social media? Amy Y. Zhang, Asa Roast and Carwyn Morris introduce the term “wanghong urbanism” to theorize the construction of urban-digital spectacle and discuss the implications of the phenomenon for cities in China and beyond.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 7June 13, 2022<June 13, 2022

Online Patriots and Traitors: The War, Authoritarianism, and State-Sponsored Digital Vigilantism in Russia

by Maxim Alyukov

Maxim Alyukov looks at how the Putin regime is encouraging digital vigilantism to crack down on anti-war dissent

Screenshot of one of the short films from 2097: We Made Ourselves Over by Blast Theory. Source: Blast Theory.

no. 3, Q & A, vol. 6July 8, 2021<October 5, 2021

The Mediapolis Q&A: Marcos Dias’s The Machinic City

by Tanya Lokot

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.

no. 4, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 5October 26, 2020<October 26, 2020

Mediapolis Q&A: Germaine R. Halegoua’s The Digital City

by Rahul Mukherjee

Rahul Mukherjee leads a discussion with Germaine R. Halegoua on her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place.

no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 2June 5, 2017<June 5, 2017

The Narrative Landscape of Google Street View

by Aroussiak Gabrielian

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.

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 1December 5, 2016<January 17, 2017

Researching the Urban as a Human Endeavour

by Giorgia Aiello

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.

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 1November 15, 2016<January 17, 2017

Right to the City, or Compulsion to Connect?

by Myria Georgiou

In the third essay, Myria Georgiou reflects on the politicized relationships between the right to the city and emergent compulsions to communicate digitally.