Reflections on the Small-Gauge Roundtable
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Wrapping up our roundtable discussion on small-gauge scholarship, Mediapolis editors Brendan Kredell and Erica Stein reflect on lessons learned and paths forward.
no. 3
Public Space, Media Space: A Review
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In this issue, Joshua Synenko reviews Chris Berry, Janet Harbord, and Rachel Moore's recent edited collection on media and public space.
Small-Gauge Cities
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In this contribution to our small-gauge roundtable, Carla Nappi turns her attention to the city itself: what does it mean to practice small-gauge scholarship when "thinking of and thinking with" cities?
Small-Gauge as Remediating and Metamedial
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With this entry in our ongoing small-gauge roundtable, Scott Rodgers examines how the divide between digital and analog media can help us think in a critical and self-reflective way about the form and the practice of small-gauge scholarship.
Small-Gauge Attunements for Critical Knowledge Making
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Jen Heuson continues our ongoing roundtable by raising the question of "attunement": do small-gauge methods afford critical faculties to the scholar that would be unavailable otherwise?
On Teaching: The Cinematic City
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In this issue's On Teaching feature, Floris Paalman introduces a graduate seminar he taught on cinematic cities, and reflects on some of the lessons learned.
The Importance of “Looking Through”
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Kevin T. Allen begins the second round of our small-gauge roundtable by insisting on a space for self-reflexivity in our work.
Threading the Labyrinth: Small-Gauge Approaches to the Urban
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All our contributors have conceptualized small-gauge scholarship and practice as a challenge to the contemporary scholarly apparatus and as an extension of the self. Or, more accurately, as a challenge to the norms of the academy because it is an extension of the self.
Small-gauge as Environmental and Ordinary
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With this contribution to this issue's roundtable discussion, Scott Rodgers prompts us to think about how small-gauge modes of communication and scholarship are reconstituting the "environment" of the academic world.
Small-Gauge Storytelling
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In this entry to our small-gauge roundtable, Carla Nappi ponders the role of the scholar as an "explorer-stumbler," and the importance of storytelling as an act of worldmaking.
Developing a Small-Gauge Ethos for Scholarship and Art
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Jennifer Heuson identifies a "small-gauge ethos" in her research and her artwork in this entry to our ongoing roundtable discussion on small-gauge scholarship.
The Genealogy of Small Gauge
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In this entry to the small-gauge roundtable, Kevin T. Allen explores the genealogy of the term "small-gauge" inside and outside of its media contexts, and discusses its applicability to his own work.