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Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture
Joined August 2015
Call for contributions: Mediapolis dossier on PLAYABLE CITIES, edited by @LindaKopitz, @carobirdsalland @alexgekker. Abstracts due 15th October. Full CFP here:
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RT @AnnaViolaSborgi: Still some time to apply for the @ScmsUrbanism SIG Graduate Writing Award in collaboration with @mediapolisjrl !
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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.
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A text version of the interview with Caitlin Bruce is available here:
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In the latest Mediapolis Q&A, Adam Ochonicky talks to Pamela Robertson Wojcik about her recent book, Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema.
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In our From the Archive series, Ariel Dougherty looks back on her work with International Videoletters (1975–1977), a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges.
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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. #mediaarchaeology
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From billboards to dirigibles, the outdoor advertising of Douglas Leigh incorporated theatrical techniques into the urban landscape. Jane Zhang shows how Leigh’s work mediated the relationship between individual and national identity in postwar America.
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PSA... Mediapolis Journal will continue to post here for now, but you can also find us over at Bluesky and on FB if you want to follow the journal elsewhere. Thanks!
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RT @ScmsUrbanism: Apply for @SCMSUrbanism's Graduate Student Writing Award! Students please consider applying, mentors please share this A…
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RT @ScmsUrbanism: We are delighted to announce a second online talk! On November 8 (12 PM CST/1 pm EST/6 pm GMT) Professor Pamela Robertson…
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RT @ScmsUrbanism: Please join us on Friday, October 25th at 9 am EST for the first of our forthcoming virtual book talks! Our first selecti…
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Deadline approaching: Projection Activism – The Right to the City in Mediated Space. Abstracts due October 15; 3,000-4,000 word articles due February 1, 2025.
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RT @LindaKopitz: One more week to submit an abstract (300 words) for our @mediapolisjrl special issue on #PlayableCities – coming out in Au…
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Our latest Student Voices section contains work by students at John Cabot University (Rome) on the "Urban Media" course. In her introduction, Eleonora Diamanti @DD_dr_diamonds discusses designing the syllabus and assessments for the course:
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Read the full dossier on Middling Cities now! Many thanks to guest editors @laviniabrydon, @BibiBreipen, @kaNtshingana and Janina Schupp.
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In the lead-up to South Africa’s first democratic elections, the TV series Tropical Heat used Pretoria to double as a fictional Florida city. @chrisbrood considers the complex politics of the series and its transformation of Pretoria into a 'retrotopia'.
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Georgina Cebey (@ladytormenta) analyses the distinctive image of Mexicali in Levantamuertos (2013), arguing that the film’s exploration of the “slow violence” of everyday life challenges stereotypical representations of the Mexican border.
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Chris Hite @Hite_Film explores the popularity of Italian cinema in the “middling” industrial towns of Western Pennsylvania in the silent era and traces how shifts in distribution practices for foreign films marginalized these markets after WWII.
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In their dossier introduction, @laviniabrydon, @kaNtshingana and Janina Schupp discuss the significance of “Middling Cities” and make a case for the importance of looking beyond global metropolitan centres and media capitals.
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