Media, Precarity, and the Home: An Introduction

Anna Viola Sborgi

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 6November 10, 2021<November 11, 2021

Media, Precarity, and the Home: An Introduction

by Anna Viola Sborgi

Anna Viola Sborgi introduces the roundtable with some reflections on the meanings of housing precarity in urban centers and the recent proliferation of images of housing inequality in popular culture.

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 3June 22, 2018<June 28, 2018

The Use of Enchantment in Shanghai and Hong Kong

by Naomi Farahan

In this essay, Naomi Farahan, a student at Indiana University, analyzes ways in which public screens in Shanghai and Hong Kong work as forms of enchantment, questioning precisely for whom this enchantment is intended.

no. 4, Student Voices, vol. 2October 27, 2017<March 25, 2022

Infrastructural Inequalities and Digital Divides

by Kortnee Tilson

In “Infrastructural Inequality and Digital Divides,” Kortnee Tilson navigates through the dense theoretical content of Manuel Castells’ work on networked societies, and provides an evaluation of his insights for questions of power, inequality and access in connection with digital infrastructures.

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.