Zlatan Krajina and Deborah Stevenson - The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO URBAN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION

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.

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.

THE ROUTLEDGE
COMPANION TO
URBAN MEDIA AND
COMMUNICATION

Edited by Zlatan Krajina and
Deborah Stevenson

First published 2020
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Krajina, Zlatan, editor. | Stevenson, Deborah, 1958- editor.
Title: The Routledge companion to urban media and communication / edited by Zlatan Krajina and Deborah Stevenson.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2020. | Includes index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2019026188 (print) | LCCN 2019026189 (ebook) | ISBN 9780415792554 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315211633 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Cities and townsEffect of technological innovations on. | Mass mediaSocial aspects. | CommunicationSocial aspects. | Urban ecology (Sociology) | Internet of things.
Classification: LCC HT119 .R685 2020 (print) | LCC HT119 (ebook) | DDC 307.76dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019026188
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019026189

ISBN: 978-0-415-79255-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-21163-3 (ebk)

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Giorgia Aiello is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. She is lead editor of Communicating the City: Meanings, Practices, Interactions (2017) and the International Journal of Communication s special section Going About the City: Methods and Methodologies for Urban Communication Research.

Gruia B descu is a Research Associate at the School of Geography, University of Oxford, and a visiting lecturer at the National School of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest. His research examines urban reconstruction and memorialization after war and political violence, focusing on the Balkans and the Middle East.

Anita Bakshi teaches in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University and is Associate Graduate Faculty for the Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies (CHAPS) Program. She is the author of Topographies of Memories: A New Poetics of Commemoration (2017).

Sarah Barns research explores the historical intersections between urban transformation and media innovation and uses practice-based methods to animate sites of urban change using sound, digital projection and mobile media. Sarah is Director of Public Space Media at Esem Projects and author of Platform Urbanism: Negotiating Platform Ecosystems in Connected Cities to be published in late 2019.

Charlotte Brunsdon s books include Television Cities (2018) and London in Cinema (2007). She is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK where she has been Principal Investigator on The Projection Project .

Peter Campbell is Senior Lecturer in the University of Liverpools Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology. His work concentrates on social research methods, culture and the arts.

Chris Chesher is Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. His research concentrates on social aspects of digital media, including robotics, computer games, mobile media, toys and the Internet.

Roy Coleman is Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK. His writing and research continue to be focused on surveillance, state power, spatial injustice and governing through emotion. His first book, Reclaiming the Streets (Routledge), won the Hart Social and Legal Book Prize in 2005.

Jennifer Craik is Professor of Fashion at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She publishes on fashion theory and culture, including The Face of Fashion , Fashion: Key Concepts and Modern Fashion Traditions (co-ed. Angela Jansen).

James Donald is Emeritus Professor of Film Studies at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, although now based in the UK. He is author of Sentimental Education (1992), Imagining the Modern City (1999) and Some of These Days: Black Stars, Jazz Aesthetics and Modernist Culture (2015), and editor of over a dozen volumes on film, culture and education. He edited Screen Education and was founding editor of New Formations . He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.