no. 3

August 27, 2020<August 27, 2020

Where We Care: Local Attention in a Platformized Pandemic

Scott Rodgers

Scott Rodgers explores the novelties and continuities of emergent, very local uses of social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what they indicate about our deepening interdependencies with platforms.

August 24, 2020<August 27, 2020

COVID Nights

Will Straw

Will Straw analyzes nocturnal videos that reveal the scale of night-time cultures happening during the COVID-19 lockdown and the role of the pandemic in highlighting ongoing policy debates about urban lighting, urban noise, and spectacle.

August 20, 2020<August 27, 2020

Robotic Logics of Public Space in the COVID Pandemic

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.

August 17, 2020<August 27, 2020

Mobilizing Inter-Mediacies: Reflections on Urban Scenographies in (Post-)Lockdown Cities

Nanna Verhoeff & Sigrid Merx

Sigrid Merx and Nanna Verhoeff examine scenographic figurations of urban space in the physically distanced city to help us understand how protests and the pandemic have provoked questions and answers about how and for what public space can be used and by whom.

August 14, 2020<August 27, 2020

Media and the Physically Distanced City

Dave Colangelo & Zach Melzer

In their introductory essay, dossier editors Dave Colangelo and Zach Melzer examine how the pandemic and BLM protests offer a lens into the makeup, visuality, and legibility of urban environments and their relationship with various forms of media.

August 10, 2020<August 12, 2020

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

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.