Wanghong Urbanism: Towards a New Urban-Digital Spectacle

Zhang, Amy Y., Asa Roast, and Carwyn Morris

Deep Dives, no. 4, vol. 7November 30, 2022<January 25, 2023

Wanghong Urbanism: Towards a New Urban-Digital Spectacle

by Amy Y. Zhang, Asa Roast, and Carwyn Morris

What happens when a place achieves celebrity status on social media? Amy Y. Zhang, Asa Roast and Carwyn Morris introduce the term “wanghong urbanism” to theorize the construction of urban-digital spectacle and discuss the implications of the phenomenon for cities in China and beyond.

no. 4, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 7November 14, 2022<November 14, 2022

The Mediapolis Q&A: Cortland Rankin’s Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York

by Robert Joseph

Cortland Rankin discusses his new book, Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York, with Robert Joseph.

no. 3, On Teaching, vol. 7September 30, 2022<September 30, 2022

Dignified Spaces in European Cities: A Co-teaching Experiment

by Ipek Celik Rappas, Katharina Bauer, James Kapalo, and Martin Radermacher

In this issue of On Teaching, the authors describe their collaborative, interdisciplinary, and inter-institutional undergraduate and graduate course "Dignified Spaces in a Plural Europe: On the (In)Visibility of Cultural and Religious Communities in Post-Industrial Cities," providing an overview of its aims and reflecting on their experiences teaching this unique, collaborative project.

no. 1, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 7April 1, 2022<April 2, 2022

The Mediapolis Q&A: Erica Stein’s Seeing Symphonically

by Paula J. Massood

Erica Stein discusses her book, Seeing Symphonically: Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planing, and the Utopian Image of New York, with Paula J. Massood.

Mediapolis Now, no. 4, vol. 6September 27, 2021<September 27, 2021

Events Episode 1: Predictive Cities with Manu Luksch, Melissa Butcher, Sarah Keenan and Joel McKim

by Scott Rodgers

In the latest episode of our Events podcast series, Manu Luksch, Melissa Butcher, Sarah Keenan and Joel McKim discuss the Predictive Cities VR Exhibition, specially available to Mediapolis listeners and readers until the end of 2021.

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

Tosaka Jun’s Spatial Theory and Reflections on Film

by Yoon Jeong Oh

Yoon Jeong Oh revisits Tosaka Jun's critical interpretations of Japanese society and cultural criticism, arguing that in his writing on post-WWI Japan, Tosaka problematizes the everyday and reinstates heterogeneous temporalities by restoring the social space occupied by the people who live, work, and move about the city streets.

no. 4, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 5October 26, 2020<October 26, 2020

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

by Rahul Mukherjee

Rahul Mukherjee leads a discussion with Germaine R. Halegoua on her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 5August 20, 2020<August 27, 2020

Robotic Logics of Public Space in the COVID Pandemic

by Shanti Sumartojo et al

A group of interdisciplinary researchers from Monash University examines urban robotics as an emerging possibility for the colonization of public space due to the absence of humans in the lockdown city.

no. 2, On Teaching, Student Voices, vol. 5July 2, 2020<July 6, 2020

Culture in the Mediapolis

by Helen Morgan Parmett

Helen Morgan Parmett and Conn Holohan introduce this installment of Student Voices. First, Helen Morgan Parmett discusses the themes of her seminar course, "Culture in the Mediapolis," from which student essays in the section are drawn. Morgan Parmett emphasizes the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the course and her students. Holohan then provides an introduction to the short films students' submitted as part of the section's special feature on student responses to the pandemic.