The Mediapolis Q&A: Monica Degen and Gillian Rose’s <em>The New Urban Aesthetic</em>

Rodgers, Scott; Rose, Gillian; Degen, Monica

November 18, 2023<November 22, 2023

The Mediapolis Q&A: Monica Degen and Gillian Rose’s The New Urban Aesthetic

Scott Rodgers, Monica Degen and Gillian Rose

Monica Degen and Gillian Rose discuss their book The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change with Scott Rodgers.

November 14, 2022<November 14, 2022

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

Robert Joseph and Cortland Rankin

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

April 1, 2022<November 22, 2023

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

Paula J. Massood and Erica Stein

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

November 19, 2021<November 19, 2021

The Mediapolis Q&A: Race and the Suburbs

Merrill Schleier, Elizabeth Patton, Angel Matos and Amy Corbin

Merrill Schleier discusses her latest book, Race and the Suburbs in American Film (SUNY Press, 2021), with three of the book's contributing authors, Elizabeth Patton, Angel Matos, and Amy Corbin.

September 21, 2021<September 21, 2021

Getting to the Heights: The Latinx Neighborhood at Work and Play in Jon M. Chu’s and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s New Musical

Catherine Benamou

Catherine Benamou discusses the urban musical In the Heights and unpacks its complex relationship with the Latinx neighborhood of Washington Heights.

September 16, 2021<March 31, 2023

The Mediapolis Q&A: Mara Ferreri’s The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism and Ella Harris’s Rebranding Precarity

Mara Ferreri and Ella Harris

Mara Ferreri and Ella Harris discuss their books The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London and Rebranding Precarity: Pop-Up Culture as the Seductive New Normal.

Screenshot of one of the short films from 2097: We Made Ourselves Over by Blast Theory. Source: Blast Theory.

July 8, 2021<October 5, 2021

The Mediapolis Q&A: Marcos Dias’s The Machinic City

Tanya Lokot and Marcos Dias

In this installment of our Q&A series, digital media and society scholar and Editorial Board member Tanya Lokot interviews Marcos Dias on his recent book The Machinic City: Media, Performance and Participation.

June 24, 2021<June 24, 2021

The Mediapolis Q&A: Malcolm James’s Sonic Intimacy

Helen Kim and Malcolm James

Helen Kim speaks to Malcolm James about his book, Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos.

April 6, 2021<April 7, 2021

Mobility, race, citizenship and Driving While Black

Steve Macek

Steve Macek reviews the PBS documentary Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America and discusses the history of race and mobility in the United States.

January 15, 2021<February 3, 2021

The Mediapolis Q&A: Elizabeth Patton’s Easy Living

Elana H Levine

Television and media scholar Elana Levine interviews Elizabeth Patton on her recent book Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office.

November 11, 2020<November 11, 2020

The Landscape as a Monument: Time, Space and Memory in the Geographies of Eastern Ukraine

Tanya Lokot

Tanya Lokot interviews curators Oleksandra Pogrebnyak and Dmytro Chepurnyi about the Landscape As a Monument art residency programme and the changing geographical and cultural landscapes of Eastern Ukraine.

October 26, 2020<October 26, 2020

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

Rahul Mukherjee

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