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no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3February 23, 2018

Golden Oak, Fan Engagement, and Disney’s Community Development

By Alex Kupfer

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

In 2011, Disney opened Golden …

Deep Dives, no. 5, vol. 1December 28, 2016

There Goes the Neighborhood: CenturyLink Field and the Transformation of Seattle’s SoDo Neighborhood

By Helen Morgan Parmett & Kate Ranachan

While attending the 2014 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Seattle, we – unintentionally – booked a hotel next to CenturyLink Field. Wandering around the stadium itself and the surrounding neighborhood, …