Q & A

September 16, 2021<September 16, 2021

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

by Mara Ferreri

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<July 8, 2021

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

by Tanya Lokot

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

by Helen Kim

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

January 15, 2021<February 3, 2021

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

by 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

by 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

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.

October 9, 2020<October 20, 2020

Mediapolis Q&A: Rahul Mukherjee’s Radiant Infrastructures

by Germaine R Halegoua

Germaine R. Halegoua leads a discussion with Rahul Mukherjee on his recent book Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty.

August 10, 2020<August 12, 2020

The Mediapolis Q&A: Priya Jaikumar on Where Histories Reside

by Sushmita Banerji

In this issue's Mediapolis Q&A, film scholar Sushmita Banerji interviews Priya Jaikumar on her most recent book Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space.

June 12, 2020<September 17, 2020

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

by Claire Sisco King

Claire King interviews Caitlin Bruce on her new book, Painting Publics: Transnational Legal Graffiti Scenes as Spaces for Encounter

October 9, 2019<October 10, 2019

The Mediapolis Q&A: Ofer Eliaz’s Cinematic Cryptonymies

by Angelo Restivo

In this installment of the Mediapolis Q&A, Angelo Restivo interviews Ofer Eliaz about his new book Cinematic Cryptonomies: The Absent Body in Postwar Film.

June 22, 2019<June 22, 2019

The Mediapolis Q&A: Welcome to Fear City with Nathan Holmes

by Noelle Griffis

Nathan Holmes discusses his new book Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination with Mediapolis Reviews Editor Noelle Griffis.

February 28, 2019<February 28, 2019

The Mediapolis Q&A: Joshua Glick on Los Angeles Documentary

by Alexander Davis

Alexander Davis interviews Joshua Glick about his new book, which rethinks Los Angeles as a center of documentary production