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no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 4June 24, 2019

Introduction: SCMS-U & Student Voices

By Amy Corbin

[Ed. note: this post is part of our Student Voices section. In this issue all posts in the section come from papers given at the 2019 SCMS-U Conference. For more background on these posts and to view other posts … Read More

no. 2, Student Voices, vol. 3June 20, 2018

Uncovering the Media City: Public Screens and Urban China

By Stephanie DeBoer

[Ed. note: this post introduces 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.]

Public urban screens are a …

no. 4, Student Voices, vol. 2October 27, 2017

Ruins, Representation, and the Right to the City

By Spencer Cunningham

Contemporary urban environments offer a wealth of rich social and cultural narratives for analysis. Cities lend themselves to media practices of photography and film, providing aesthetic representations of contemporary urban life. The city is not only a geographic place, it …

no. 4, Student Voices, vol. 2October 27, 2017

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 …

no. 4, Student Voices, vol. 2October 27, 2017

“Familiar Strangers” in the Age of Urban Computing

By Kendra Thompson

Enabled by mobile phones and accessible internet connection, urban computing has brought the ambience of human connection and interaction to the foreground. Mark Shepard suggests that architecture used to play the most vital role in shaping the urban landscape, but …