Publicly Sited

Dr Scott Rodgers

 

News, views and dos about media, politics and space

About

Publicly Sited is the personal website and blog of Dr Scott Rodgers, Reader in Media and Geography at Birkbeck, University of London. It contains news about things that he's up to, and more occasionally, observations on media, politics and space … though not always all three within a single thought. Read more...

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Coronavirus disease 2019

  • July 29, 2026

COVID-19 is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the…

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Selected Projects

Localizing Content Governance in Place-Named Facebook Groups

Localizing Content Governance in Place-Named Facebook Groups

Studying the politics of neighbourhood Facebook Groups in and around Greater London

Urban Data Cultures

Urban Data Cultures

Research project on the local data cultures of urban housing policy and sustainability

Data Materiality

Data Materiality

A three-year project exploring the physical underpinnings of data

Selected Publications

Digitizing localism: Anticipating, assembling and animating a ‘space’ for UK hyperlocal media production

Digitizing localism: Anticipating, assembling and animating a ‘space’ for UK hyperlocal media production

Refereed paper exploring hyperlocal media, location-based technologies and discourses of localism

Platform urbanism: A roundtable

Platform urbanism: A roundtable

Online roundtable on the urbanity of digitally-mediated, cloud-based, data-driven platforms

Conditions of mediation: Phenomenological perspectives on media

Conditions of mediation: Phenomenological perspectives on media

Edited book on the phenomenologies of media, from social platforms and wearable media to diasporic identity formation and the ethics of consumer technologies

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    +44 (0)20 3073 8370
    s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk
    Malet Street
    Birkbeck, University of London
    Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX