Gentrification and Screen Media
Ipek A. Celik Rappas and Noelle Griffis
Ipek Celik Rappas and Noelle Griffis select some key texts on film/TV and gentrification.
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The Mediapolis Q&A: Caitlin Bruce on Voices in Aerosol
Caitlin Bruce and Scott Rodgers
Scott Rodgers talks to Caitlin Bruce about her recent book, Voices in Aerosol.
Voices Episode 7: Caitlin Bruce on Graffiti Culture and Urban Institutional Attunement
Scott Rodgers
In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Caitlin Bruce discusses with Scott Rodgers her recent book exploring shifting judgments of graffiti culture in urban Mexico, and how the book has taken on new life as socially-engaged scholarship.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Pamela Robertson Wojcik on Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema
Adam Ochonicky and Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Adam Ochonicky talks to Pamela Robertson Wojcik about her latest book, Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema.
International Videoletters: Feminists’ Hope and Our Own Self-Grown Media
Ariel Dougherty
International Videoletters (1975–1977) was a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges. Looking back on her involvement with the group, Ariel Dougherty explains its significance and emphasizes the importance of preserving its artifacts for feminist media history.
Bologna and its Computing Centers: An Archaeology of Urban Media (1961–2022)
Stefano Corbo
Bologna is one of the main data processing hubs in Europe. Stefano Corbo traces the infrastructural and architectural development of the city’s computer centers, arguing that to understand the recent history of the city, we must pay attention to the material history of data.
Marketing Nation: The Spectacular Outdoor Advertisements of Douglas Leigh in Postwar America
Jane Zhang
From electronic billboards to spectacular dirigibles, the outdoor advertising of Douglas Leigh incorporated theatrical techniques into the urban landscape. Jane Zhang shows how Leigh’s corporate campaigns mediated the relationship between individual and national identity in postwar America.