urban space

no. 4, Opening the Canon, vol. 5October 26, 2020

Tosaka Jun’s Spatial Theory and Reflections on Film

By Yoon Jeong Oh

The 2020 global pandemic affected the urban context from the visible surface of city streets to the most quotidian details of city life. In New York, where I teach and live, the streets were uncannily desolate in the spring and …

Mediapolis Q&A: Germaine R. Halegoua’s The Digital City

By Rahul Mukherjee

This is the second entry in a two-part conversation between authors Germaine R. Halegoua and Rahul Mukherjee on their recent books on media, culture, and urban geographies. In this installment, Dr. Mukherjee leads a discussion with Dr. Halegoua, on her …

Robotic Logics of Public Space in the COVID Pandemic

By Shanti Sumartojo et al

[Ed. note: This article is part of the dossier, “Media and the Physically Distanced City,” which examines how the pandemic and global BLM protests offer a lens into the makeup of urban environments and their relationship with various forms … Read More

no. 2, On Teaching, Student Voices, vol. 5July 2, 2020

Culture in the Mediapolis

By Helen Morgan-Parmett

Ed. note: this post introduces a Student Voices section featuring student work on media cities, as well as a special feature on student experiences of COVID-19. For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, … Read More

no. 2, Q & A, vol. 5June 12, 2020

The Mediapolis Q&A: Caitlin Bruce’s Painting Publics

By Claire Sisco King

Caitlin Bruce is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Painting Publics: Transnational Legal Graffiti Scenes as Spaces for Encounter (Temple University Press, 2019), winner of the Jane Jacobs Urban …