Mediapolis Now

Jun 25 2024 14 ep. 37 mins 1

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Mediapolis Now is the podcast channel of Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. Like its parent journal, our podcast puts media and the city into conversation. We are interested in how scholars, artists and other practitioners see the practices, rhythms and motilities of the city through patterns of media use, exposure and desire; and who approach media forms, representations, infrastructures and industries as intrinsic aspects of urban living. Our channel hosts three series, all exploring the junction of cities, culture and media: Voices, in which we interview thinkers and practitioners about their work; Essays, featuring audio readings of selected Mediapolis articles; and Events, audio recordings of recent talks and symposia. Audio Editor and Host: Scott Rodgers. Visit the Mediapolis journal website: https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/

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Voices 06: Myria Georgiou on Competing Claims to Digital Urban Humanity

Jun 25 2024 26 mins

In this episode of the Mediapolis Now Voices series, we speak with Myria Georgiou. Myria is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has been working for more than two decades on the mediation of identity and citizenship. Myria’s work has spanned interests in: the relationships of media and cities; how media are implicated

Voices 05: Rebecca Ross on Postcodes, Communication Design and Urban Media

Apr 24 2024 45 mins

In this episode, we speak with Rebecca Ross, director of the graphic communication design programme at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Her writing and practice are both interdisciplinary, extending from graphic and communication design to media studies, urban studies, the history of technology and creative computing. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Urba

Voices 04: Monica Degen and Gillian Rose on the New Urban Aesthetic

Nov 22 2023 44 mins

In this episode of the Mediapolis Now Voices series, we speak with Monica Degen and Gillian Rose. Monica Degen is Professor of Urban Cultural Sociology at Brunel University London, in the UK. Her research focuses on the practices and politics of experiential urbanism. Largely through ethnographic approaches, Monica’s work explores how multi-sensory, temporal and emotional dimensi

Events 03: Julia Stolyar, Darshana Mini and Jaana Serres at Locating Media Industries 2023 in London

Oct 05 2023 39 mins

This episode, part of the Mediapolis Now Events series, brings together three scholars presenting at the conference Locating Media Industries, held 19th-21st June 2023 at King’s College London (KCL). At this conference, attendees from around the world gathered to think through the spatial organisation of different media industries, with a special interest in how that organization

Voices 03: Amy Y. Zhang, Asa Roast and Carwyn Morris on Wanghong Urbanism

Jun 16 2023 49 mins

In this episode of the Mediapolis Now Voices series, we speak with Amy Zhang, Asa Roast and Carwyn Morris. Amy Zhang is based at a The University of Manchester, in the UK, where she is Lecturer in Urban Planning. Her research focuses on urban politics and governance, urban knowledge and policy mobilities, postcolonial urban theory, and state-society relations in China. Asa Roast is

Events 02: Media, Cities and Space at ECREA 2022 in Aarhus

Mar 29 2023 44 mins

This episode includes excerpts from four interviews from the 9th European Communication Conference, held in Aarhus, Denmark, 19th-22nd October 2022. The ECC is the biennial conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association, and in 2022, the conference theme was ‘Rethink Impact’, exploring how communication studies (broadly defined) interacts with, impa

Voices 02: Christian Olesen on Film Sound, Soundscapes and the ‘Listener’s Rights’

Jun 25 2022 59 mins

In this episode of the Mediapolis Now Voices series, we speak with Christian Olesen. Christian is based at the University of Amsterdam, in The Netherlands, where he is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Cultural Heritage. His work has focused on archiving theory and history, film and media historiography, digital methods, found footage, remixing and practice-based research. W

Events 01: Predictive Cities with Manu Luksch, Melissa Butcher, Sarah Keenan and Joel McKim

Aug 13 2021 69 mins

This episode is an edited version of the Predictive Cities colloquium, held online on July 1st 2021. The colloquium involved a roundtable discussion of the Predictive Cities exhibition, sponsored by the Urban Intersections Working Group of Birkbeck’s Institute for Social Research. Especially for Mediapolis listeners and readers, the exhibition's run has been extended until the e

Shannon Mattern on '5000 Years of Urban Media'

Apr 29 2021 30 mins

This is a repost of Mack Hagood’s conversation with Shannon Mattern in 2017 on her book Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media. When it was first published, it was the first audio interview to appear on Mediapolis. It was also a preview of the podcast Phantom Power: Sounds about Sound, co-hosted by Hagood with poet and media artist cris cheek in 2018. Th

Voices 01: Zlatan Krajina and Deborah Stevenson on the Histories and Futures of Urban Media and Communication

Apr 14 2021 28 mins

In this episode of the Mediapolis Now Voices series, we speak with Zlatan Krajina and Deborah Stevenson. Zlatan is based at the University of Zagreb, in Croatia, where he is Assistant Professor of Media Studies. His work has focused on urban screens, media and everyday life and qualitative methodologies. Deborah is based at Western Sydney University, in Australia, where she is Prof