The website for last year’s ‘City Maps’ workshop – which I co-convened with Mari Paz Balibrea and Lawrence Webb – is now live. This series was funded by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership, and included workshops led by Johan Andersson, Iain Borden, Ben Fraser, Shannon Mattern, Rebecca Ross and Clancy Wilmott. I’d be remiss to … Continue Reading
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Data Materiality Episode 2: Shannon Mattern on 5G, Media Materiality, Archaeology and Pedagogy
Although it’s technically been online for a week, I just took a short pause before publicising the second episode of Data Materiality. Data Materiality is a podcast series I co-host with Joel McKim, and is related to our three-year research project running under the same name, co-sponsored by Birkbeck’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media … Continue Reading
Places available on City Maps PhD workshop with Shannon Mattern and Rebecca Ross
This is my third blog post in a row beginning with the words ‘places available’. But in any event… and with apologies to those not in London / the Southeast of England, I’m pleased to advertise that some places are available on the next City Maps doctoral training workshop, funded by CHASE, which will take … Continue Reading
Call for chapter proposals: Music cities
This looks really interesting – a call for chapter proposals towards an edited collection on Music Cities. The deadline is 15 May, so fast approaching. Based on the listserv email I saw, the editors are seeking contributions that look at the city-based music scenes as scenes – i.e. their urban situation, rather than urban representations … Continue Reading
Announcing Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture
It’s with great pleasure that I can announce the publication of the first issue of Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. I’m fortunate enough to be on the Editorial Board of this new journal and – although my involvement in this first issue was very minor indeed – I look forward to helping bring … Continue Reading
Urban media studies: 2015 conference at University of Zagreb
An enticing conference will be taking place this September at the University of Zagreb, organised by Seija Ridell, Simone Tosoni and Zlatan Krajina. Rather sadly, I won’t be able to go as it directly coincides with our undergraduate induction day, which I can’t miss this year. Not only would it have been nice to present … Continue Reading
New paper published on ‘Circulating cities of difference’
In what must be surely the fastest turnaround from final manuscript submission to publication I will ever experience, a paper of mine has just been published in JOMEC Journal. Originally a book chapter in a unpublished edited book, this paper has now been significantly revised before as well as after peer review, just in time … Continue Reading
The mediated city: a tour of media and mediation in West End London
My Birkbeck colleague Joel McKim and I are going to be leading an ‘urban media tour’ of West End London in just over a week, on Wednesday 22 May, 2013. This tour is, in part, based on a tour I originally developed for my undergraduate module The Mediated City, though it’s now being re-purposed (with … Continue Reading
(Yet) another media city conference: Mediating Cityscapes
With forthcoming conferences in Leeds (Communication and the City) and Helsinki (The Spectacular/Contested/Ordinary Media City), not to mention the special Media and Urban Life (PDF) track in which I recently presented at the Urban Affairs Association conference, it’s been a very busy year for all things media and cities. Now, we can add yet another … Continue Reading
The ouster of Blockbuster (or, formats dying a slow death)
I’ve been meaning to get this photo off of my camera and post it for a while. At least a year ago, I took a photo of this same Blockbuster outlet (in Crouch End, North London) and the sign read ‘OC BUSTER’. It may or may not be surprising that they’ve simply let their presence … Continue Reading