inequality | Mediapolis

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

The Use of Enchantment in Shanghai and Hong Kong

By Naomi Farahan

[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.]

The screens in …

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 …

Right to the City, or Compulsion to Connect?

By Myria Georgiou

[Ed. note: this post is part of a roundtable discussion on “The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

In …