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 explo ...
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Voices 06: Myria Georgiou on Competing Claims to Digital Urban Humanity
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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 …
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Voices 05: Rebecca Ross on Postcodes, Communication Design and Urban Media
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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 th…
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Voices 04: Monica Degen and Gillian Rose on the New Urban Aesthetic
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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…
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Events 03: Julia Stolyar, Darshana Mini and Jaana Serres at Locating Media Industries 2023 in London
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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 i…
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Voices 03: Amy Y. Zhang, Asa Roast and Carwyn Morris on Wanghong Urbanism
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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-societ…
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Events 02: Media, Cities and Space at ECREA 2022 in Aarhus
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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…
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Voices 02: Christian Olesen on Film Sound, Soundscapes and the ‘Listener’s Rights’
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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, remix…
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Events 01: Predictive Cities with Manu Luksch, Melissa Butcher, Sarah Keenan and Joel McKim
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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 ru…
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Shannon Mattern on '5000 Years of Urban Media'
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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 med…
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Voices 01: Zlatan Krajina and Deborah Stevenson on the Histories and Futures of Urban Media and Communication
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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 Universit…
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Mediapolis Live: London - Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies Symposium
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This episode is a recording of a discussion held at the July 2019 London: Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies symposium. Hosted by Pamela Wojcik, the event features panelists Kulraj Phullar, Malini Guha, and Charlotte Brunsdon. It was produced by Brendan Kredell. This episode is from the archives of Mediapolis Live, precursor podcast to Mediapolis …
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Mediapolis Live: Dora Apel on “Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline”
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This episode is an interview with Dora Apel, author of "Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline." Speaking with founding Mediapolis co-editor Brendan Kredell, Apel discusses her notion of the "deindustrial sublime" and the nomenclature of ruin photography. This episode is from the archives of Mediapolis Live, precursor podcast …
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Mediapolis Live: Joseph Clement at Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment
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This is a part recording of the March 2018 event "Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment" presented at the University of Toronto during that year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference and organized by Mediapolis‘ own Stanley Corkin. In this episode, you hear the most utopian presentation of the night, from the second panellist, fi…
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Mediapolis Live: Jane Corkin at Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment
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This is a part recording of the March 2018 event "Film, Media, and Toronto’s Built Environment" presented at the University of Toronto during that year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference and organized by Mediapolis‘ own Stanley Corkin. In this episode, you hear the first participant, Jane Corkin, founder of Toronto’s Corkin Gallery, …
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