Living With the Media Industry City
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In this introduction to the second round, Lawrence Webb asks the contributors to consider media industries and the cities they generate from the perspective of those cities' citizens and users
Roundtables
A Deceptive Return to Welfare State Rhetoric in the Marketing Initiatives of Gothenburg
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Helena Holgersson & Erik Florin Persson explore Gothenberg's new promotional films, and trace their attempted resuscitation of older notions of community and government
Golden Oak, Fan Engagement, and Disney’s Community Development
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Alex Kupfer explores how the promotional films for Disney's Golden Oak community blur distinctions between resident and fan, employee and family member
Lofts, Eats, and Montréal’s Game Industry
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Theo Stojanov discusses the arrival of the game industry in Montreal, and its marketing to new workers.
Relocating Mobile Production: Los Angeles & TV’s Spatial Capital Showdown
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Myles McNutt discusses how Los Angeles has been forced to rethink its approach to competing in a new television landscape characterized by mobile production
Media Industries and City Branding: A Roundtable
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In the first-round introduction to our new Roundtable, Lawrence Webb uses the example of Amazon HQ2 to ask how urban corporate and residential relocation campaigns illuminate issues of citizenship and city branding, and poses questions to our participants
The Margaret Atwood Renaissance
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In our continuing look back at the year that was 2017, Hunter Vaughan reflects on Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, and popular culture's potential as a tool for social responsibility and engagement.
Naz & Maalik
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Concluding our look back at the year that was 2017, Amy Corbin reflects on the lessons learned from an evening at the cinema, and the audience conversation after a screening of Jay Dockendorf's Naz & Maalik.
Teach Me How to Dougie
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In our ongoing look at the year that was 2017, Nina Cartier calls our attention to a seemingly-ephemeral moment in the wake of one of the year's biggest political surprises, exploring the racial and gender subtext of that time when Doug Jones taught us how to Dougie.
The Punch
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When is a punch more than just a punch? In the next installment of our look back at the year that was, Nathan Holmes reflects on the "important semiotic damage" of a prominent white supremacist getting punched in the face with cameras rolling.
“Flickers of Sunlight”: The Year That Was
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Mediapolis opens the new year by looking at the one that's just passed. Here, co-editor Brendan Kredell introduces the series and reflects on the changing tone of the journal in 2017.
Sense and the City: Liam Young’s Speculative Cinema, Part II
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In this second round of responses in the Experimental Media in the City roundtable, Holly Willis encourages us to consider how mediated cities and mediated selves provoke an ethics of the computational and the ethically mediated self, as opposed to an ethics of the visual.