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.
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The Mediapolis Q&A: Joshua Glick on Los Angeles Documentary
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Alexander Davis interviews Joshua Glick about his new book, which rethinks Los Angeles as a center of documentary production
A Geographic Approach to Old Tucson
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Chris Lukinbeal explains how GIS techniques, drone technology, and multi-layer mapping data can help trace the topography of location shoots.
Old Tucson: Studio and Location, Geography and Film Historiography
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Josh Gleich and Chris Lukinbeal use a perennial location for westerns to ask how film scholars and geographers might each approach such a site and what they might learn from one another.
Google Street View’s Projected Futures
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In this post, Aroussiak Gabrielian links Street View's aesthetics to extant cinematic techniques to explore the potential of its abstractions for telling new stories about the city’s possible futures.
Demarginalizing New Media Maps
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Alison Wielgus returns to the sites of the BAFC to view them through Google's digital maps and ask what still remains uncharted, and how mapping can be decoupled from older power structures in emerging media.