urban infrastructures

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 23, 2018

Platform Urbanism: An Introduction

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Platform Urbanism.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

Talk about ‘platforms’ is all-pervasive. Used as an …

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 …

The Challenges (and Rewards) of Teaching Media Infrastructures through Popular Culture

By Joshua Synenko

I am very pleased to be part of an initiative to showcase undergraduate student research through Mediapolis, and I’m equally pleased to offer readers a sampling of the undergraduate scholarship that we encourage at Trent University’s Department of Cultural …