media city

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.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 5August 14, 2020<August 27, 2020

Media and the Physically Distanced City

by Dave Colangelo & Zach Melzer

In their introductory essay, dossier editors Dave Colangelo and Zach Melzer examine how the pandemic and BLM protests offer a lens into the makeup, visuality, and legibility of urban environments and their relationship with various forms of media.

no. 5, Roundtables, vol. 1December 12, 2016<January 17, 2017

Doubly Displacing Media and the City

by Scott Rodgers

In this concluding response, Scott Rodgers explores the roundtable's apparent consensus that the intersection of media and the urban should be approached by counter-intuitively displacing both of these key concepts.

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

Reflecting on the Media City’s Stranger

by Myria Georgiou

In this response, Myria Georgiou asks if the mediation of ordinary urbanity can go beyond rearticulating the existing order, thereby opening up spaces of thinking of the stranger beyond Otherness.