The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication

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