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The volume brings together key interdisciplinary perspectives and global case studies to uncover the joint trajectories of urban space, technology, and everyday life. Tracing emerging debates and neglected connections between cities and media, this book challenges what we know about contemporary urban living.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
The volume brings together key interdisciplinary perspectives and global case studies to uncover the joint trajectories of urban space, technology, and everyday life. Tracing emerging debates and neglected connections between cities and media, this book challenges what we know about contemporary urban living.
