Mediapolis Now: a new podcast channel

Over at Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture, I have taken on a new role as Audio Editor. My main responsibility in this new role is coordinating and producing content for the journal’s new podcast channel, Mediapolis Now. The channel is hosted on Podbean, and available for subscription through the most popular podcast distributors (e.g. … Continue Reading

Media, Technology & Culture podcast: new episodes on infrastructure and embodiment

I’m somewhat falling behind with the updates on the good ole blog here, but another couple of episodes have been published in my podcast series Media, Technology & Culture. Episode 6 explores infrastructure, focusing in particular on the internet as a vast, dispersed infrastructures on which various media technologies, including nonhuman objects, depend. Episode 7 explores … Continue Reading

City Maps: Ben Fraser on ‘Urban cultural studies: getting oriented, getting published’

Workshop 5 was the concluding workshop of the CHASE City Maps series, and was led by Ben Fraser (University of Arizona). It had two aims. On the one hand, it offered reflections on the emerging field of Urban Cultural Studies and its interdisciplinary approach, bridging the Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences. On the … Continue Reading

City Maps: Shannon Mattern and Rebecca Ross on ‘Mapping urban media infrastructures’

In Workshop 4 of the CHASE City Maps series, Shannon Mattern (The New School) and Rebecca Ross (Central Saint Martins) examined methods for exploring, excavating, observing, testing, and notating urban media infrastructures, broadly defined. Participants developed a shared infrastructural question and cartographic strategy, before heading out to Bloomsbury’s Russell Square and environs to make observations. … Continue Reading

City Maps: Clancy Wilmott on ‘Urban spaces and scalar traces’

In Workshop 3 of the CHASE City Maps series, Clancy Wilmott from the University of Manchester (now at University of California Berkeley) began with an outline of her own work on mobile mapping, and the emerging relationships between space, cartography and digital technologies. These themes were connected with the research projects of workshop participants, who … Continue Reading

City Maps: Iain Borden on ‘The transdisciplinarity of urban experience’

In Workshop 1 of the CHASE City Maps series, Iain Borden from University College London focused on ‘experience’ as a transdisciplinary urban concept. As depicted in the film from the workshop, his introduction to the concept of experience was both via his own work – on topics ranging from skateboarding to automobile driving – as … Continue Reading