The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements General Introduction References PART I: Trajectories of Mediated Urbanity Introduction to Part I: Trajectories of Mediated Urbanity References Chapter 1: An Archaeology of the Media City: Toward a Critical Cultural History of Mediated Urbanism Inventing the Media City “Big City Life” The Electric Media City The Suburban Media City The Digital Media City The Future Media City? References Further Reading Chapter 2: The Semiotics of Urban Space Epistemological Considerations Political Economy and the Semiotics of Urban Space The Semiotic Analysis of Urban Space as Place Approaches to the Semiotic Production of Urban Space Approaches to the Semiotic Consumption of Urban Space The Major Semiotic Models of Urban Space References Further Reading Chapter 3: Understanding Urban Screen Media and Cultures Introduction Abundance of Screens, Abundance of Genealogies Urban Screens as an Aesthetic Category Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 4: Urban Cinema and Photography: On Cities and “Cityness” Introduction Intellectual Field Modernity Surveillance Time References Further Reading Chapter 5: Television and the City Introduction Television, Modernity and the Suburb Television Outside the Domestic The City on Television The Production of Television in the City: Creative Locales References Further Reading Chapter 6: Journalism: An Urban Affair Introduction Journalism as a Culture of Public Circulation Journalistic Placemaking Journalistic Field Spaces Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 7: Outdoor Advertising and the Remediation of Public Space(s): Commercialization and Beyond Introduction Outdoor Advertising in Historical Context Commercialization and the “Public”: Outdoor Advertising as Marketing Medium and Out-of-Home Screens The Remediation of Urban Space Beyond Commercialization Issues of Intersectionality Conclusion: Regulation and Social Acceptance References Further Reading Chapter 8: Consumption-Centered Urban Restructuring and the Mediation of Urban Life: From Spaces of Production to the Worlds of Seduction Introduction: The Centrality of Consumption in the Material and Symbolic Transformation of Cities Understanding Cities as Scenes and Objects of Consumption— Entangling Urban, Consumption, and Media Studies Urban Change and the Production of Consumption Spaces in Central and Eastern Europe An Outlook for Further Research Acknowledgment References Further Reading Chapter 9: On the Move: On Mobile Agoras, Networked Selves, and the Contemporary City Introduction Mobilities and Moorings: The Contemporary City Understood Through the “Mobilities Turn” The City as a Political Space Digital Technology, Mobilities, and the City Mobile Agoras The Networked Self Concluding Remarks Note References Further Reading Chapter 10: Cities of Feet and Hands: Urban Habitations Introduction: Manipulations of Spatial Organization The Street Transformed Ways of the Hand Conclusion: Habitation as Lineal Notes References Further Reading Chapter 11: Subjectivity in the Media City: The Media Life and Representation of the Cosmopolitan Stranger Introduction The Media City as a Site of Mediation and Difference Subjectivities of the Media City Two Strangers: The Subaltern and the Elite Conclusions: The Ethical Predicament of the Media City References Further Reading PART II: Media as Urban Infrastructure; City Spaces as Media Introduction to Part II: Media as Urban Infrastructure; City Spaces as Media References Chapter 12: The City Is Not a Computer: On Museums, Libraries, and Archives Introduction A History of Informatic Metaphors Informational Ecologies of the City The Case Against “Information Processing” Note Acknowledgment References Further Reading Chapter 13: Urban Monuments and the Spatialization of National Ideologies Introduction Postwar/Post-Socialist Transition Urban Commemorations of the “Homeland” War Remembering Vukovar Capital Building: Astana Concluding Remarks Acknowledgment References Further Reading Chapter 14: Artificial Light and the Modernist Redefinition of Urban Space: Reading the “Electropolis” Introduction Nineteenth Century: The Night Spectacular Twentieth Century: Modernity and the Lit City Twenty-First Century: LEDs and the Retreat of Light? Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 15: Urban Transport and Telecommunications: Dual Forms of the Communicative Skeleton of the City Introduction Locatability and Navigability: Rational Address Systems Extensibility: The Utility Pole and the Grid Coordination: Mobile Dispatch Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 16: Global Cities as Mediated Spaces: The Role of Media in Forming Contradictory Places Introduction Exploring the Contradictory Role of the Media in the Formation of Cities Forms of Communication Across Human History in Relation to Urban Change Media as Contradictory Forces in the Process of Urban Formation Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 17: Our Own Devices: Living in the Smart Home Introduction On the “Smart” Home Smartification Future Trajectories of the Smart Home References Further Reading Chapter 18: Surveillance as an Urban Way of Life Introduction What Is Surveillance? Panoptic Cities Mediated Cities, Synoptic Cities Watching the “Criminal” Watching Women Conclusion: Surveillance, Power, City References Further Reading Chapter 19: Urban Media as Infrastructure for Social Change Introduction Media and Social Change Infrastructure, Media, and Cities Media and Social Change in Colonial, Postcolonial, and Neoliberal Infrastructures of Rule Urban Media as Infrastructure for Social Change in Caracas Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 20: In the Air Tonight: The Struggles of Communicating About Urban Environmental Quality Introduction Smoke-Shaped Space: The Relevance of Air Pollution for Social Production of Space The Controversial Communication of Air Pollution Gain Trust, Fight Apathy Conclusion Note Acknowledgment References Further Reading Chapter 21: The Promises and Pitfalls of Cyber Urbanism: Governance and Participation Introduction The Intersections of Urban Space, Cyberspace, and Democratic Potential Urban Cyber-Infrastructures Digital Governance and Citizensourcing The Online Public Sphere: Algorithm Bias and Search Engine Manipulation Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 22: Tools of the Trade: Urban Planning, Urban Media and the Refashioning of Urban Space Introduction Part One: Visions of the City Part Two: Fragmented Views Conclusion References Further Reading PART III: Media Cities as Sites of Creative Industries and Post-Industrial Urbanism Introduction to Part III: Media Cities as Sites of Creative Industries and Post-Industrial Urbanism References Chapter 23: From “Creative Cities” to “Media Cities”: The Cases of Manchester and Shanghai Media Clusters and Local Creative Milieus MediaCityUK Media Clusters in Shanghai Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 24: Branding, Promotion, and the Tourist City Introduction Image, Tourism, and Space Tourism and the City Brands in the Landscape Conclusion Acknowledgment References Further Reading Chapter 25: “European Capital of Culture” and the Primacy of Cultural Infrastructure in Post-Industrial Urbanism Introduction From European Identity to Urban Regeneration Creative Industries in Creative Cities? ECoC—A Cultural Policy for the Creative City? Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 26: The Mediat(izat)ion of Urban Leisure: Screening the Event Introduction: Watching, Being, and Making the Event Event Mobilities In and Outside the Venue Conclusion: Splintered Urban Experiences? References Further Reading Chapter 27: Media Architecture: Post Screens, Ante [Insert Here] Introduction Screens as Part of Architecture Post Screens—Ante [Insert Here] Conclusion Acknowledgment Note References Further Reading Chapter 28: Fashion: An Urban Industry of Style Introduction: Fashioning the City Then and Now Fashion in the Mediated City Networking and Placemaking Through Fashion Design in the City and the Labor of Design and Fashion Creating Fashion Capitals and Animating Cities Through Fashion Weeks Diversification of Fashion Media Transformations in Fashion Retailing and Fashion Consumption References Further Reading Chapter 29: Digital Public Art: Installations and Interventions Introduction Urban Public Art and the Internet of Things DIY Urban Medium Sensemakings of Public Art in the Cyber-City Reflections: The Arts of Digital Citizenship References Further Reading Chapter 30: Urban Nightlife Cultures Introduction The Rise of the 24-Hour City Mediating the City After Dark Gendered Exclusion from Nightlife Areas Mediation of the Night by “Soft” Surveillance Nightlife Across the Globe Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 31: Urban Gaming: Mobile Media, Spatial Practices, and Everyday Play Introduction Casual Gaming in Public: The Mobilization of Private Space Location-Based Mobile Games: Transforming Urban Environments into Playspaces Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 32: From Subculture to Scene: Urban Media Practices from Below Introduction Origins of Subcultural Theory Post-Subcultural Theory and Scenes Social Media and Beyond References Further Reading Chapter 33: Documenting Urban Neighborhoods and Claiming the Right to the City Introduction Urban Memory The Right to the City Projects of Appropriation and Participation Conclusion References Further Reading PART IV: Spaces and Practices of Daily Life in Mediated Cities Introduction to Part IV: Spaces and Practices of Daily Life in Mediated Cities References Chapter 34: The Senses and the City: Attention, Distraction and Media Technology in Urban Environments Introduction The Five Senses and More Sensory Overload and Fragmentary Attention Sensors and the City References Further Reading Chapter 35: Navigating Hybrid Urban Spaces: Smartphones and Locative Media Practices Introduction Locative Media and Time/Space Coordination Location Information and the Presentation of Self Wayfinding Through Mobile Mapping Conclusion Note References Further Reading Chapter 36: Media Audiences in the Urban Context Introduction “Urbanizing” Audience Research Media Consumption in Public and Urban Habitation: Seeking Place in Mediated Urban Space Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 37: Temporary Inscriptions: Exploring Graffiti and Street Art in the Age of Internetization of Everyday Urban Life Introduction Traits, Types, and Techniques Researching Graffiti and Street Art as Urban Media Political Dimensions of Graffiti and Street Art Graffiti and the Media: From Denigration to Documentation to Mainstreamization Communication (Studies’) Perspectives on Graffiti and Street Art Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 38: Creating a Situation in the City: Embodied Spaces and the Act of Crossing Boundaries Introduction: Constructing Situations Urban Exploration DIY/Guerrilla Urbanism Contemporary Mediated Psychogeographies Neogeography and Mapping Situations Conclusion: (Re)Constructing the City References Further Reading Chapter 39: Mediated Urban Protest: Practicing Dissent in Hybrid City Spaces Introduction Right to the City Protest and Digital Media Protest in Hybrid Urban Spaces Conclusions References Further Reading Chapter 40: Community, Media, and the City Introduction: Visions of Community Favela: Community as a Form of Resistance? What Makes It Community Media? The Lamppost Radio and Its Urban Community Community Media as “Community Infrastructures” in the Mediated City Concluding Thoughts References Further Reading Chapter 41: “The Street Is the Message”: Racial Violence and the White Control of Mobility Introduction Black (Media) Studies From Freeways to Freedom Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 42: Living in the Disadvantaged End of “Dual Cities”: Understanding the Urban Poor and the Precariat Introduction Planet of Slums Covering the Urban Underclass The Urban Poor on Screen: Movies and TV A Voice for the Excluded: Poor People’s Media Conclusion References Further Reading Chapter 43: The Politics of Sexuality in Mediated Cities Introduction Cities and Sexual Minorities Consuming the City in Travel-Themed Television Connecting Cities and Their Representations References Further Reading Chapter 44: Methodological Approaches in Urban Media and Communication Research Introduction Cities as Content of Communication Cities as Contexts of Media Engagement Cities as Media Conclusions References Further Reading Index