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This book brings together leading scholars to interrogate the enduring and evolving relationship between journalism, mass communications, and the built environment. From the emergence of the first newspapers, media buildings have provided their producers and consumers with a definable shape and served as key nodes in the urban geography of communications. At the same time, the changing form and function of media buildings has both reflected and reified transformations in modern journalism and mass communication.
List of contents
Introduction.- Ch 1 From Dingy and Incommodious to Quite Palatial ? The Local and Regional Newspaper s Presence in the English Townscape, c. 1850 - 2015.- Ch 2 The Newsroom as a State of Mind: Place, Emotions and Journalism Cultures in Britain.- Ch 3 In the Face of Fire and Dynamite: Racial Violence and Black Press Buildings during the Nadir .- Ch 4 Above the Street or in the Field? Newsroom Space and Serendipity in Martinique.- Ch 5 Architectures of the Air: Radio Buildings and the Urban Politics of Media Production in Germany, 1930-1938.- Ch 6- Up and Out: Mediality and Verticality at Toronto s CN Tower.- Ch 7 With a Whoosh and a Bang: Pneumatic Tubes and the American Newsroom, 1910-1960.- Ch 8 The Heart of a Newsroom: The Relevancy of the News Library Then and Now for News Organizations.- Ch 9 Desk Reject? How Computational Journalists Reconceptualized Newsroom Office Space for the Data Age.- Ch 10 Media Infrastructure, Natural Disaster, and the Emergence of Convergence Newsrooms in Nepal.- Ch 11 Journalists and Objects of Journalism Relations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethnographic Study in Three Indonesian Newsrooms.
