Directing the Consumer’s Attention through Public Screens: A Critical View
Rachel Leffers
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Student Voices section on Hong Kong, Shanghai, cities, screens, and spectacle. For more background on …
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Integrated Spectacle Perpetuation Within Metro China
Emma Hamilton
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Student Voices section on Hong Kong, Shanghai, cities, screens, and spectacle. For more background on …
Access, Control, and Consent in the Urban Metropolises of Hong Kong and Shanghai
Keenan Lacy-Rhodes
In this essay, Keenan Lacy-Rhodes, a student at Indiana University, discusses the ways in which large public screens communicate and constitutes a global, commercial elite, further exacerbating inequalities within Hong Kong and Shanghai.
The Ordinary vs. The Spectacular
Maggie Farwig
In this essay, Maggie Farwig, a student at Indiana University, considers the ways in which screens manifest in the practices of everyday life in both ordinary and spectacular ways, creating both connections and disconnections and blurring relations between public and private.
Micro to Macro in Hong Kong and Shanghai: How Media Cities View Mega Screens
Celia Grubba
In this essay, Celia Grubba, a student from Indiana University, discusses the ways in which public screens position and constitute China as global and cosmopolitan.
The Screen City and the Absence of Choice
Calvin Badger
In this essay, Calvin Badger, a student at Indiana University, analyzes the extent to which individuals can express agency vis a vis public screens in Shanghai and Hong Kong, considering the ways in which those screens are bound up with relations of power in the city.
The Use of Enchantment in Shanghai and Hong Kong
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.
Uncovering the Media City: Public Screens and Urban China
Stephanie DeBoer
Stephanie DeBoer introduces a new installment of Student Voices by situating her students' essays on Hong Kong and Shanghai in discussions of public screens, global publics, and the dispositif.
Light Wins: Commercial Placemaking and Public Screens
Kyle Winkel
In this essay, Kyle Winkel, a student at Indiana University, considers the ways in which advertisers utilize light art and technology as a way to captivate increasingly desensitized passerby in public screen spectacles in urban Hong Kong.
Shiny Diversions
Myalisa Miroballi
In this essay, Myalisa Miroballi, a student at Indiana University, discusses the ways in which screen culture pervades the streets of Hong Kong and Shanghai in ways that constitute the cities as aspirational global consumer hubs.
Public Screen Culture in Modern Hong Kong
Cara Singell
In this essay, Cara Singell, a student at Indiana University, discusses the varying degrees of "publicness" of contemporary public screens in Hong Kong, suggesting that screens vary from "partially-obsolete publicness," "semi-publicness," to "true/pure publicness."
The Spectacle of Screen Environments
Kyle McClarney
In this essay, Kyle McClarney, a student at Indiana University, explores the ways in which public screens become "integrated spectacles" in their environments in Hong Kong and Shanghai.