Long Way Home
Lena Stevens
In her poetic video essay, "The Long Way Home," Lena Stevens pays homage to the tender moments of togetherness that we are fighting for every moment we spend in isolation.
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Magical Marinades and Archival Puzzles: An Interview with Jennifer Wild
Jennifer Wild & Matt Hauske
Working in archives requires an archival sensibility. Jennifer Wild talks with Matt Hauske about her experience working in archives, and on the importance of understanding the archive as a space for generating on-the-ground historical perception.
Ruins, Representation, and the Right to the City
Spencer Cunningham
In “Ruins, Representation and the Right to the City,” Spencer Cunningham provides a deft summary of the ongoing discussion surrounding the redevelopment of the City of Detroit, exploring the aesthetics (or, rather, the aestheticization) of the city’s urban ruins, and the contradictory forces of gentrification that continue into the present day.
Infrastructural Inequalities and Digital Divides
Kortnee Tilson
In “Infrastructural Inequality and Digital Divides,” Kortnee Tilson navigates through the dense theoretical content of Manuel Castells’ work on networked societies, and provides an evaluation of his insights for questions of power, inequality and access in connection with digital infrastructures.
“Familiar Strangers” in the Age of Urban Computing
Kendra Thompson
Kendra Thompson investigates the urban technologies that both divide us and reconnect us.
Student Voices: Mediapolis’s New Undergraduate Research Section
Helen Morgan Parmett
Helen Morgan-Parmett introduces the new section of the journal, Student Voices, which features innovative, undergraduate student scholarship.