In just a few weeks I will be presenting a paper at what looks like a very interesting symposium here at Birkbeck considering the increasingly important relationships between politicians and performance. I have pasted the programme, as well as my own abstract, below. Many of the other contributors will be drawing centrally on practices and … Continue Reading
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The media-urban nexus: histories, stakes, possibilities (text of keynote paper)
Below is the text of a keynote paper given on Sunday 29 May 2016 for the ‘Mediating cityscapes’ symposium, held as part of the Artists’ Film Biennial at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. It was an informal paper, in which I mainly was asked to open out some issues for the symposium. So I deliberately … Continue Reading
Mediating cityscapes symposium at the ICA
This Sunday, 29 May 2016, I will be presenting a keynote paper for ‘Mediating cityscapes’, a symposium being held as part of the Artists’ Film Biennial at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. My paper – titled ‘The media-urban nexus: histories, stakes, possibilities’ – will be an attempt to open up some broad themes around what … Continue Reading
Event: What things are, what things do
Next week, on Friday 27 May, Güneş Tavmen and Hannah Barton are organising what looks to be an interesting interdisciplinary seminar titled ‘What things are, what things do’. The event – sponsored by Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture – will host a set of debates around the ‘structuring structures’ of media culture: in … Continue Reading
Urban media tour: 18 May 2016
After a two-year hiatus, Joel McKim and I are pleased to again lead our (evidently) popular urban media tour of West End London, this year as part of Birkbeck Arts Week 2016. As always, we’ll be not only visiting a range of buildings and neighbourhoods associated with major media industries, but also we’ll be discussing … 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
Media practices and urban politics: a conversation about slow theory
As Clive Barnett (here, and in more detail here) and Stuart Elden (here) have already posted, the Society and Space open site has now released a podcast conversation between myself, Clive Barnett and Allan Cochrane, hosted by Tim Markham, about our paper recently published in the journal. In conjunction with the podcast being published, the … Continue Reading
Event at The Hub: Open Data, Smart Citizens?
Along with Myria Georgiou and a whole gang of others, Joel McKim and I have been helping to establish a new (and as-yet unnamed) London research network on media and cities. Like quite a few things in which I’m involved, the network has been on a bit of a slow burn for the past several … Continue Reading
GeoMedia 2015: formalizing ‘communication geography’?
Has research ‘carried out at the crossroads of Geography, Media and Film Studies’ reached such volume and complexity to necessitate a major international conference which seeks to assess ‘the prospects of communication geography as a more formalized academic field’? Apparently the answer is yes, seeing the advanced call for papers for GeoMedia 2015, which will … Continue Reading