The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities and urban communication. The volume brings together diverse perspectives and global case studies to map key areas of research within media, cultural and urban studies, where a joint focus on communications and cities has made important innovations in how we understand urban space, technology, identity and community.
Exploring the rise and growing complexity of urban media and communication as the next key theme for both urban and media studies, the book gathers and reviews fast-developing knowledge on specific emergent phenomena such as:
reading the city as symbol and text;
understanding urban infrastructures as media (and vice-versa);
the rise of global cities;
urban and suburban media cultures: newspapers, cinema, radio, television and the mobile phone;
changing spaces and practices of urban consumption;
the mediation of the neighbourhood, community and diaspora;
the centrality of culture to urban regeneration;
communicative responses to urban crises such as racism, poverty and pollution;
the role of street art in the negotiation of ‘the right to the city’;
city competition and urban branding;
outdoor advertising;
moving image architecture;
‘smart’/cyber urbanism;
the emergence of Media City production spaces and clusters.
Charting key debates and neglected connections between cities and media, this book challenges what we know about contemporary urban living and introduces innovative frameworks for understanding cities, media and their futures. As such, it will be an essential resource for students and scholars of media and communication studies, urban communication, urban sociology, urban planning and design, architecture, visual cultures, urban geography, art history, politics,
cultural studies, anthropology and cultural policy studies, as well as those working with governmental agencies, cultural foundations and institutes, and policy think tanks.
Edited by:
Zlatan Krajina,
Deborah Stevenson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 2.250kg
ISBN: 9780415792554
ISBN 10: 041579255X
Pages: 488
Publication Date: 11 October 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"General Introduction Part I: Trajectories of Mediated Urbanity Chapter One: An Archaeology of the Media City: Towards a Critical Cultural History of Mediated Urbanism Chapter Two: The Semiotics of Urban Space Chapter Three: Understanding Urban Screen Media and Cultures Chapter Four: Urban Cinema and Photography: On Cities and ""Cityness"" Chapter Five: Television and the City Chapter Six: Journalism: An Urban Affair Chapter Seven: Outdoor Advertising and the Remediation of Public Space(s): Commercialization and Beyond Chapter Eight: Consumption-centered Urban Restructuring and the Mediation of Urban Life: From Spaces of Production to the Worlds of Seduction Chapter Nine: On the Move: On Mobile Agoras, Networked Selves, and the Contemporary City Chapter Ten: Cities of Feet and Hands: Urban Habitations Chapter Eleven: Subjectivity in the Media City: The Media Life and Representation of the Cosmopolitan Stranger Part II: Media as Urban Infrastructure; City Spaces as Media Chapter Twelve: The City Is Not a Computer: On Museums, Libraries, and Archives Chapter Thirteen: Urban Monuments and the Spatialization of National Ideologies Chapter Fourteen: Artificial Light and the Modernist Redefinition of Urban Space: Reading the ""Electropolis"" Chapter Fifteen: Urban Transport and Telecommunications: Dual Forms of the Communicative Skeleton of the City Chapter Sixteen: Global Cities as Mediated Spaces: The Role of Media in Forming Contradictory Places Chapter Seventeen: Our Own Devices: Living in the Smart Home Chapter Eighteen: Surveillance as an Urban Way of Life Chapter Nineteen: Urban Media as Infrastructure for Social Change Chapter Twenty: In the Air Tonight: The Struggles of Communicating About Urban Environmental Quality Chapter Twenty-One: The Promises and Pitfalls of Cyber Urbanism: Governance and Participation Chapter Twenty-Two: Tools of the Trade: Urban Planning, Urban Media, and theRefashioning of Urban Space Part III: Media Cities as Sites of Creative Industries and Post-Industrial Urbanism Chapter Twenty-Three: From ""Creative Cities"" to ""Media Cities"": The Cases of Manchester and Shanghai Chapter Twenty-Four: Branding, Promotion, and Urban Tourism Chapter Twenty-Five: ""European Capital of Culture"" and the Primacy of Cultural Infrastructure in Post-Industrial Urbanism Chapter Twenty-Six: The Mediat(izat)ion of Urban Leisure: Screening the Event Chapter Twenty-Seven: Media Architecture: Post screens, Ante [Insert here] Chapter Twenty-Eight: Fashion: An Urban Industry of Style Chapter Twenty-Nine: Digital Public Art: Installations and Interventions Chapter Thirty: Urban Nightlife Cultures Chapter Thirty-One: Urban Gaming: Mobile Media, Spatial Practices and Everyday Play Chapter Thirty-Two: From Subculture to Scene: Urban Media Practices from Below Chapter Thirty-Three: Documenting Urban Neighborhoods and Claiming the Right to the City Part IV: Spaces and Practices of Daily Life in Mediated Cities Chapter Thirty-Four: The Senses and the City: Attention, Distraction and Media Technology in Urban Environments Chapter Thirty-Five: Navigating Hybrid Urban Spaces: Smartphones and Locative Media Practices Chapter Thirty-Six: Media Audiences in the Urban Context Chapter Thirty-Seven: Temporary Inscriptions: Exploring Graffiti and Street Art in the Age of Internetization of Everyday Urban Life Chapter Thirty-Eight: Creating a Situation in the City: Embodied Spaces and the Act of Crossing Boundaries Chapter Thirty-Nine: Mediated Urban Protest: Practicing Dissent in Hybrid City Spaces Chapter Forty: Community, Media, and the City Chapter Forty-One: ""The Street is the Message"": Racial Violence and the White Control of Mobility Chapter Forty-Two: Living in the Disadvantaged End of ""Dual Cities"": Understanding the Urban Poor and the Precariat Chapter Forty-Three: The Politics of Sexuality in Mediated Cities Chapter Forty-Four: Methodological Approaches in Urban Media and Communication Research"
Zlatan Krajina is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he teaches graduate courses on media cities, media audiences and qualitative methodologies. Deborah Stevenson is Professor of Sociology and Urban Cultural Research in the Institute of Culture and Society at the Western Sydney University, Australia.
