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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Apr 29

In the latest podcast, @baykurt.bsky.social discusses with @scott-rodgers.bsky.social her longstanding interests in Google as an increasingly influential agent in urban affairs, and her efforts to rethink ‘test-bed urbanism’ through the local.

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Voices Episode 8: Burcu Baykurt on Google Urbanism

In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Burcu Baykurt discusses with Scott Rodgers her longstanding interests in Google as an increasingly influential agent in urban affairs, as well as he...

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Apr 17

What happens when a Brutalist building becomes a screen? Drawing on the Concrete Cinema project in Coventry, Michael Pigott explores the affordances and potentials of outdoor moving image projection for the analysis and critique of architecture. www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/conc...

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Apr 17

How do residents respond to public art in gentrifying areas? Pauline Panetta investigates attitudes to activist projection art in Copenhagen’s Nørrebro neighborhood and its Lundtoftegade housing complex. www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/acti...

Activist Screen Projection Art in the Gentrifying Neighborhood

How do residents respond to public art in gentrifying areas? Pauline Panetta investigates attitudes to activist projection art in Copenhagen’s Nørrebro neighborhood and its Lundtoftegade housing compl...

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Apr 16

Duncan Whitley and Mel Jordan discuss the film Phoenix City 2021 and the potential for site-based artworks to challenge placemaking narratives and the politics of the UK City of Culture.
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Phoenix City 2021: Art, Regeneration, and Counter-Atmospheres in the UK City of Culture

Phoenix City 2021 explores the role of art in Coventry’s regeneration. Duncan Whitley and Mel Jordan discuss the various iterations of the film and the potential for site-based artworks to challenge p...

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Apr 15

The dossier continues ... Giorgia Rizzioli explores how posthumanist theory helps us to understand the potential for projection activism as a feminist spatial practice. www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/proj...

Projection Activism as Spatial Practice: Words and Gestures for a Feminist City

Giorgia Rizzioli explores how posthumanist theory helps us to understand the potential for projection activism as a feminist spatial practice.

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Apr 14

From May 1968 to Black Lives Matter, visual and textual strategies have been central to protest movements. Giuseppe Previtali reflects on projection activism as a tool for bringing new political configurations into being. More to come in this dossier soon! www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/take...

Take Your Desires for Realities: Projection and Political Imagination

From May 1968 to Black Lives Matter, visual and textual strategies have been central to protest movements. Giuseppe Previtali reflects on contemporary projection activism as a tool for bringing new po...

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Apr 14

Giorgia Rizzioli introduces the Projection Activism dossier with some reflections on urban projection as a means to assert the right to the city. www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/urba...

Introduction – Urban Light, Activist Fight: Redesigning Spaces of Change

Giorgia Rizzioli introduces the Projection Activism dossier with some reflections on urban projection as a means to assert the right to the city.

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Apr 14

Stanley Corkin discusses his latest book, Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age, with Bruce Isaacs. www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/cork...

The Mediapolis Q&A: Stanley Corkin’s Boston Mass-Mediated

Stanley Corkin discusses his latest book, Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age, with Bruce Isaacs.

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Anna Viola Sborgi @annaviolasborgi.bsky.social · Jan 20

there is still some time to submit an essay for the UGA SIG Graduate Student Award @scmsurbanism.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social @mediapolis.bsky.social if you have students working on urbanism/geography/architecture topics, please do encourage to submit!

scmsurbanism.bsky.social @scmsurbanism.bsky.social · Jan 9

A reminder that our Graduate Student Essay Prize is accepting submissions through the end of the month!

The winning essay will receive a $200 grant and publication in @mediapolis.bsky.social.

Submissions are due by January 31, 2025, at [email protected].

For more details, please see below:

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Dec 18

Ipek Celik Rappas and Noelle Griffis select some key texts on Gentrification & Screen Media in the latest addition to our Reading and Resource List section. mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/gent...

Gentrification and Screen Media

Ipek Celik Rappas and Noelle Griffis select some key texts on film/TV and gentrification.

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Dec 16

And here's a text version of the interview with Caitlin Bruce. www.mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/voic...

The Mediapolis Q&A: Caitlin Bruce on Voices in Aerosol

Scott Rodgers talks to Caitlin Bruce about her recent book, Voices in Aerosol.

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Dec 16

In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Caitlin Bruce discusses with Scott Rodgers her recent book exploring shifting judgments of graffiti culture in urban Mexico, and how the book has taken on new life as socially-engaged scholarship.

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Voices Episode 7: Caitlin Bruce on Graffiti Culture and Urban Institutional Attunement

In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Caitlin Bruce discusses with Scott Rodgers her recent book exploring shifting judgments of graffiti culture in urban Mexico, and how the book has ta...

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scmsurbanism.bsky.social @scmsurbanism.bsky.social · Nov 20

Apply for @scmsurbanism.bsky.social's Graduate Student Writing Award! Students please consider applying, mentors please share this Award CFP with students!
Deadline: January 31, 2025
Award: Publication in Mediapolis Journal & $200.
Details are below. We look forward to your submissions!

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Dec 12

In the latest Mediapolis Q&A, @adamochonicky.bsky.social talks to Pamela Robertson Wojcik about her recent book, Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema. www.mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/wojc...

The Mediapolis Q&A: Pamela Robertson Wojcik on Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema

Adam Ochonicky talks to Pamela Robertson Wojcik about her latest book, Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema.

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Dec 2

Issue 9.4 continues with the latest in our From the Archive series. Ariel Dougherty looks back on her work with International Videoletters (1975–1977), a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges. wp.me/p6zYkX-3Dv

International Videoletters: Feminists’ Hope and Our Own Self-Grown Media

International Videoletters (1975–1977) was a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges. Looking back on her involvement with the...

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Nov 25

Next up in issue 9.4: Stefano Corbo traces the infrastructural and architectural development of Bologna's computer centers, arguing that to understand the recent history of the city, we must pay attention to the material history of data.

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Bologna and its Computing Centers: An Archaeology of Urban Media (1961–2022)

Bologna is one of the main data processing hubs in Europe. Stefano Corbo traces the infrastructural and architectural development of the city’s computer centers, arguing that to understand the recent ...

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Nov 25

The first article in issue 9.4 is Jane Zhang's Deep Dive into the advertising of Douglas Leigh, which is brilliantly illustrated with archival materials from the Smithsonian and elsewhere. Check it out!

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Marketing Nation: The Spectacular Outdoor Advertisements of Douglas Leigh in Postwar America

From electronic billboards to spectacular dirigibles, the outdoor advertising of Douglas Leigh incorporated theatrical techniques into the urban landscape. Jane Zhang shows how Leigh’s corporate campa...

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Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social · Nov 25

Hey Bluesky! Welcome to new followers and hello to old friends. Stay tuned for issue 9.4, in which you'll find spectacular dirigibles, the media archaeology of supercomputers, feminist videotape networks, Mexican graffiti, homelessness in Hollywood, gentrification and media, and more!

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