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Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture
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Hey Bluesky! Welcome to new followers and hello to old friends. Stay tuned for issue 9.4, in which you'll find spectacular dirigibles, the media archaeology of supercomputers, feminist videotape networks, Mexican graffiti, homelessness in Hollywood, gentrification and media, and more!
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Just published in our newest
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dossier: Erica Stein traces out how multiple conceptions of scholarly âconversationâ shaped the founding of the journal and remain central to the journalâs identity today.
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2026/06/publ...
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Publication as Conversation
Erica Stein traces out how multiple conceptions of scholarly âconversationâ shaped the founding of Mediapolis and remain central to the journalâs identity.
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2026/06/publication-as-conversation/
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Linda Kopitz
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Both a milestone and a transitional moment: The newest issue of MEDIAPOLIS: A JOURNAL OF CITIES AND CULTURE â Vol. 11 No. 1 "Mediapolis at 10 Years and Beyond" â is now online in
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www.mediapolisjournal.com
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Michael D. Dwyer
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Hey! I dunno if I mentioned it but I wrote a book, and the fine folks at
@mediapolis.bsky.social
let me sit for a Q&A (
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2026/06/the-...
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The Mediapolis Q&A:Â Michael Dwyerâs Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt
Cortland Rankin speaks to Michael Dwyer about his book Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2026/06/the-mediapolis-qa-michael-dwyers-tinsel-and-rust-how-hollywood-manufactured-the-rust-belt/
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Malini Guha
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My latest writing in
@mediapolis.bsky.social
at 10, which revisits an essay I wrote in 2020 on the circulation of the anti-racist reading and films following the lynching of George Floyd:
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2026/06/revi...
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Revisiting Lists in a Time of Neutrality
Malini Guha contributes a reflective Deep Dive that revisits her previous essay about anti-racist list-making during the summer of 2020. Along with analyzing artist Cauleen Smithâs drawings of book co...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2026/06/revisiting-lists/
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What happens when cities become datasets for AI competitions? Sam Hind shows how machine learningâs scoreboards distance practitioners from the real-world impacts of their work.
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Playing Domains: Codes, Cities, and Cultures in the Viral World of Machine Learning
What happens when cities become datasets for AI competitions? Sam Hind shows how machine learning's scoreboards distance practitioners from the real-world impacts of their work.
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/playing-domains/
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Games and cities are shaped by protocols and procedures. Drawing on the concept of âGamespace,â Connor Cook discusses how gamic principles are applied to urban planning and how these might be playfully resisted in turn.
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Gamespace Odyssey: Notes on the Procedural Transformation of Athens
Games and cities are shaped by protocols and procedures. Drawing on the concept of âGamespace,â Connor Cook discusses how gamic principles are applied to urban planning and how these might be playfull...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/gamespace-odyssey/
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Bringing together artistic interventions and urban acts of resistance under the umbrella of âsensor games,â Christoph Borbach and Max Kanderske explore playful practices that strategically engage with and expose surveillance infrastructures.
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Playful Resistance: The Politics of Sensor Counter-Practices in Urban Technospheres
Bringing together artistic interventions and urban acts of resistance under the umbrella of âsensor games,â Christoph Borbach and Max Kanderske explore playful practices that strategically engage with...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/playful-resistance/
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The artwork Too Rich City transforms Chinaâs housing crisis into a virtual playground, where NFT properties and augmented reality offer young people alternative forms of urban belonging. Hsin Hsieh both embraces and critiques this artwork.
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Too Rich City: A Sinofuturist Playground
The artwork Too Rich City transforms China's housing crisis into a virtual playground, where NFT properties and augmented reality offer young people alternative forms of urban belonging. Hsin Hsieh bo...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/too-rich-city/
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Play activates our imagination, but it can also fall short in fostering real change. Radmila Radojevic, Simeona Petkova and NĂșria ArbonĂ©s Aran reflect on this tension in relation to rapidly changing neighborhoods.
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Defamiliarizing the City: Play, Affect, and the Activation of Imaginaries
Play activates our imagination, but it can also fall short in fostering real change. Radmila Radojevic, Simeona Petkova and NĂșria ArbonĂ©s Aran reflect on this tension in relation to rapidly changing n...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/defamiliarizing-city/
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Are we playing ⊠or are we being played? In this conceptual contribution, Conor Moloney maps the tensions between public and counterpublic, culture and counterculture, play and counterplay in relation to urban experience.
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Beyond Nice: Mediating Urban life Through Play and Counter-play
Are we playing ⊠or are we being played? In this conceptual contribution, Conor Moloney maps the tensions between public and counterpublic, culture and counterculture, play and counterplay in relation...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/beyond-nice/
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Seeing and knowing a city are not necessarily the same: based on an interactive workshop with international students in London, Photini Vrikki and Giota Alevizou position photographic practices as a critical part of urban play.
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Framing London: Vernacular Photography and the Playable City in Student Life
Seeing and knowing a city are not necessarily the same: based on an interactive workshop with international students in London, Photini Vrikki and Giota Alevizou position photographic practices as a c...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/framing-london/
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From playable to instagrammable: Paul OâConnor, Julian Mcallister Groves, Yingxin Du and Tina Sze Nga Ho trace the âcolorfulâ history of the Choi Hung Public housing estate, and what that might mean for its future.
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Colourful Play in Hong Kongâs Rainbow Estate
From playable to instagrammable: Paul OâConnor, Julian Mcallister Groves, Yingxin Du and Tina Sze Nga Ho trace the âcolorfulâ history of the Choi Hung Public housing estate, and what that might mean f...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/colorful-play/
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A childrenâs menu, a play kitchen, a coloring book: Is that what makes a space
#kidsproof
? Laura Vermeeren explores how Instagramâs aestheticized content increasingly shapes what family leisure in the city should look like.
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Babyccinos and Reel Making: Who is Really Playing?
A childrenâs menu, a play kitchen, a coloring book: Is that what makes a space #kidsproof? Laura Vermeeren explores how Instagramâs aestheticized content increasingly shapes what family leisure in the...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/babyccinos/
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Focusing on Istanbulâs Etiler neighborhood, Aylin Kartal follows different waves of urban transformation from the 1950s onwards, connecting street play, urban planning and collective memory.
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Come Out and Play: A Historical Exploration of Street Play and Urbanization in the Etiler Neighborhood in Istanbul
Focusing on Istanbulâs Etiler neighborhood, Aylin Kartal follows different waves of urban transformation from the 1950s onwards, connecting street play, urban planning and collective memory.
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/come-out-and-play/
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Reflecting on her experiences of skateboarding in Cairo, New York and other cities as a form of ârolling ethnographyâ, Alia ElKattan positions âseeing like a skaterâ as a new way to approach urban landscapes.
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Seeing Like a Skater: Skateboarding as Poetic Technology
Reflecting on her experiences of skateboarding in Cairo, New York and other cities as a form of ârolling ethnographyâ, Alia ElKattan positions âseeing like a skaterâ as a new way to approach urban lan...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/seeing-like-a-skater/
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Contrasting the visibility of playful art installations with a decline in funding for public infrastructures,
@alisonstenning.bsky.social
discusses how playability of ordinary urban environments is often ignored, devalued and undermined in urban planning.
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When Cities Arenât Playable: Placing Childrenâs Play in Urban Environments
Contrasting the visibility of playful art installations with a decline in funding for public infrastructures, Alison Stenning discusses how playability of ordinary urban environments is often ignored,...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/cities-playable/
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For
@mediapolis.bsky.social
, I wrote a short article provoked in part by the jarring visions of play represented by art like this on the one hand and the Play Commission's All To Play For report and the everyday spaces of play that I engage with in my research on the other.
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Anthony Albright and Frans Willem Korsten discuss the playful appropriation of a vacant building by a squattersâ group as part of an effort to recapture urban environments from the profit-oriented âgameâ of waiting by investors.
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Urban Investorsâ Play with Time: Stakes of the Game and Waiting as Playful Strategy
Anthony Albright and Frans Willem Korsten discuss the playful appropriation of a vacant building by a squattersâ group as part of an effort to recapture urban environments from the profit-oriented âga...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/urban-investors/
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In our latest Q&A, Erica Stein speaks to Ä°pek Ăelik Rappas about her new book Filming in European Cities.
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/film...
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The Mediapolis Q&A: Ipek Ăelik Rappasâs Filming in European Cities
Erica Stein speaks to Ä°pek Ăelik Rappas about her book Filming in European Cities.
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/filming-european-cities/
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The city is a playground. But is it really? In the intro to the Playable Cities dossier,
@carobirdsall.bsky.social
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@lindakopitz.bsky.social
and Alex Gekker discuss how cities are built, how cities are navigated, and how cities are resisted with and through play.
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Playable Cities: An Introduction
The city is a playground. But is it really? This introduction to the Playable Cities dossier discusses how cities are built, how cities are navigated, and how cities are resisted with and through play...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/11/playable-cities-intro/
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Bianka-Isabell Scharmann
12 months ago
Proud to present the Dossier âLightscapes/Nightscapesâ I edited together with my friend and colleague Patricia Pia Bornus for
@mediapolis.bsky.social
- Full Issue here:
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/07/ligh...
Lightscapes/Nightscapes â An Introduction â Mediapolis
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Lightscapes/Nightscapes â An Introduction
Patricia Pia Bornus and Bianka-Isabell Scharmann introduce the dossier on Lightscapes and Nightscapes with some reflections on cities, light, and night.
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/07/lightscapes-nightscapes/
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Scott Rodgers
8 months ago
Call for Papers: The Synthetic City Weâre putting together a special issue dossier for
@mediapolis.bsky.social
on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism. đ Abstracts due: Nov 30 đ Details:
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
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CFP: âThe Synthetic Cityâ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal
The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara TrenâŠ
https://mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/cfp-the-synthetic-city-mediapolis-dossier/
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In the latest podcast,
@baykurt.bsky.social
discusses with
@scott-rodgers.bsky.social
her longstanding interests in Google as an increasingly influential agent in urban affairs, and her efforts to rethink âtest-bed urbanismâ through the local.
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/voic...
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Voices Episode 8: Burcu Baykurt on Google Urbanism
In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Burcu Baykurt discusses with Scott Rodgers her longstanding interests in Google as an increasingly influential agent in urban affairs, as well as he...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/voices-episode-8/
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What happens when a Brutalist building becomes a screen? Drawing on the Concrete Cinema project in Coventry, Michael Pigott explores the affordances and potentials of outdoor moving image projection for the analysis and critique of architecture.
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/conc...
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How do residents respond to public art in gentrifying areas? Pauline Panetta investigates attitudes to activist projection art in Copenhagenâs NĂžrrebro neighborhood and its Lundtoftegade housing complex.
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/acti...
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Activist Screen Projection Art in the Gentrifying Neighborhood
How do residents respond to public art in gentrifying areas? Pauline Panetta investigates attitudes to activist projection art in Copenhagenâs NĂžrrebro neighborhood and its Lundtoftegade housing compl...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/activist-projection-art/
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Duncan Whitley and Mel Jordan discuss the film Phoenix City 2021 and the potential for site-based artworks to challenge placemaking narratives and the politics of the UK City of Culture.
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/phoe...
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Phoenix City 2021: Art, Regeneration, and Counter-Atmospheres in the UK City of Culture
Phoenix City 2021 explores the role of art in Coventryâs regeneration. Duncan Whitley and Mel Jordan discuss the various iterations of the film and the potential for site-based artworks to challenge p...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/phoenix-city-2021/
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The dossier continues ... Giorgia Rizzioli explores how posthumanist theory helps us to understand the potential for projection activism as a feminist spatial practice.
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/proj...
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Projection Activism as Spatial Practice: Words and Gestures for a Feminist City
Giorgia Rizzioli explores how posthumanist theory helps us to understand the potential for projection activism as a feminist spatial practice.
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/projection-spatial-practice/
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From May 1968 to Black Lives Matter, visual and textual strategies have been central to protest movements. Giuseppe Previtali reflects on projection activism as a tool for bringing new political configurations into being. More to come in this dossier soon!
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/take...
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Take Your Desires for Realities: Projection and Political Imagination
From May 1968 to Black Lives Matter, visual and textual strategies have been central to protest movements. Giuseppe Previtali reflects on contemporary projection activism as a tool for bringing new po...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/take-your-desires/
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Giorgia Rizzioli introduces the Projection Activism dossier with some reflections on urban projection as a means to assert the right to the city.
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/urba...
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Introduction â Urban Light, Activist Fight: Redesigning Spaces of Change
Giorgia Rizzioli introduces the Projection Activism dossier with some reflections on urban projection as a means to assert the right to the city.
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/urban-light-activist-fight/
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Stanley Corkin discusses his latest book, Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age, with Bruce Isaacs.
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/cork...
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The Mediapolis Q&A: Stanley Corkinâs Boston Mass-Mediated
Stanley Corkin discusses his latest book, Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age, with Bruce Isaacs.
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/corkin-boston/
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Anna Viola Sborgi
over 1 year ago
there is still some time to submit an essay for the UGA SIG Graduate Student Award
@scmsurbanism.bsky.social
@scmstudies.bsky.social
@mediapolis.bsky.social
if you have students working on urbanism/geography/architecture topics, please do encourage to submit!
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Ipek Celik Rappas and Noelle Griffis select some key texts on Gentrification & Screen Media in the latest addition to our Reading and Resource List section.
mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/gent...
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Gentrification and Screen Media
Ipek Celik Rappas and Noelle Griffis select some key texts on film/TV and gentrification.
https://mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/gentrification-screen-media/
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And here's a text version of the interview with Caitlin Bruce.
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/voic...
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The Mediapolis Q&A: Caitlin Bruce on Voices in Aerosol
Scott Rodgers talks to Caitlin Bruce about her recent book, Voices in Aerosol.
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/voices-in-aerosol/
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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.
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/voic...
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Voices Episode 7: Caitlin Bruce on Graffiti Culture and Urban Institutional Attunement
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 ta...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/voices-episode-7/
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Apply for
@scmsurbanism.bsky.social
's Graduate Student Writing Award! Students please consider applying, mentors please share this Award CFP with students! Deadline: January 31, 2025 Award: Publication in Mediapolis Journal & $200. Details are below. We look forward to your submissions!
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In the latest Mediapolis Q&A,
@adamochonicky.bsky.social
talks to Pamela Robertson Wojcik about her recent book, Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema.
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/wojc...
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The Mediapolis Q&A: Pamela Robertson Wojcik on Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema
Adam Ochonicky talks to Pamela Robertson Wojcik about her latest book, Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema.
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/wojcik-unhomed/
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Issue 9.4 continues with the latest in our From the Archive series. Ariel Dougherty looks back on her work with International Videoletters (1975â1977), a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges.
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International Videoletters: Feministsâ Hope and Our Own Self-Grown Media
International Videoletters (1975â1977) was a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges. Looking back on her involvement with the...
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Next up in issue 9.4: Stefano Corbo traces the infrastructural and architectural development of Bologna's computer centers, arguing that to understand the recent history of the city, we must pay attention to the material history of data.
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2024/11/bolo...
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Bologna and its Computing Centers: An Archaeology of Urban Media (1961â2022)
Bologna is one of the main data processing hubs in Europe. Stefano Corbo traces the infrastructural and architectural development of the cityâs computer centers, arguing that to understand the recent ...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2024/11/bologna-computing/
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The first article in issue 9.4 is Jane Zhang's Deep Dive into the advertising of Douglas Leigh, which is brilliantly illustrated with archival materials from the Smithsonian and elsewhere. Check it out!
www.mediapolisjournal.com/2024/11/mark...
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Marketing Nation: The Spectacular Outdoor Advertisements of Douglas Leigh in Postwar America
From electronic billboards to spectacular dirigibles, the outdoor advertising of Douglas Leigh incorporated theatrical techniques into the urban landscape. Jane Zhang shows how Leighâs corporate campa...
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2024/11/marketing-nation/
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Hey Bluesky! Welcome to new followers and hello to old friends. Stay tuned for issue 9.4, in which you'll find spectacular dirigibles, the media archaeology of supercomputers, feminist videotape networks, Mexican graffiti, homelessness in Hollywood, gentrification and media, and more!
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