Communicating the city : meanings, practices, interactions / edited by Giorgia Aiello, Matteo Tarantino, and Kate Oakley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aiello, Giorgia, editor.

Tarantino, Matteo, editor.

Oakley, Kate, editor.

Series:

Urban communication ; Vol. 4.

Urban communication ; Vol. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

City planning--Technological innovations.

City planning.

Gentrification.

Public spaces.

Communication.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 214 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2017]

Summary:

How human meanings, practices and interactions produce and are produced by urban space is the focus of this timely and exciting addition to the study of urban communication. Challenging notions of the -urban- as physically, economically or technologically determined, this book explores key intersections of discourse, materiality, technology, mobility, identity and inequality in acts of communication across urban and urbanizing contexts. From leisure and media consumption among Chinese migrant workers in a Guangdong village to the diverse networks and communication infrastructures of global cities like London and Los Angeles, this collection combines a range of perspectives to ask fundamental questions about the significance and status of cities in times of intensified mediation and connectivity. With case studies from Italy, Britain, Ireland, Russia, the United States and China, this international collection demonstrates that both empirical and critical knowledge on the relationship between communication and urban life has become vital across the humanities and social sciences. Communicating the City will be essential reading for all scholars and students who desire to gain an in-depth understanding of the multiple roles that media and communication have in lived experiences of the city.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Foreword / by Susan Drucker and Gary Gumpert

Introduction: communicating the city between the centre and the margins / by Giorgia Aiello and Matteo Tarantino

Imagining the city

Journalism and the changing act of observation : writing about cities in the British press 1880-1940 / by Carole O'Reilly

Questioning the smart city : from techno-entrepreneurial to intelligence-enabling / by Davide Lampugnani

Spatial materialities : co-producing imaged/inhabited spaces / by Greg Dickinson and Brian L. Ott

Vedic Victorians on American gothic's landscape : relocating "foreign" architecture and restoring the spatial figure of juxtaposition / by Joan Faber McAlister

Making the city

Rural spaces, urban textures : media, leisure and identity in a southern China industrial village / by Matteo Tarantino and Chung-Tai Cheng

Practices of location-sharing and the performances of locative identity among Italian users of foursquare / by Federica Timeto

Urban change and the mesh : an ethnography of deptford's open wireless network / by Paolo Cardullo

The communication infrastructure that supports life in the city and enables urban community change / by Matthew Matsaganis

Sharing the city

Interrogating phonocentrism in the "hearing" city : exploring deaf experiences / by Gill Harold

Plague in the city : digital media as shaming apparatus toward mainland Chinese "locusts" in Hong Kong / by Jonathan Corpus Ong and Tony Zhiyang Lin

Communication and knowledge creation in urban spaces : the tactics of artistic collectives in Barcelona, Berlin and St. Petersburg / by Aleksandra Nenko, Anisya Khokhlova, Nikita Basov

Community through multiple connectivities : mapping communication assets in multicultural London / by Wallis Motta and Myria Georgiou

Afterword: communication and the city / by Kate Oakley and Giorgia Aiello

Notes on contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781433130984

143313098X

9781433130977

1433130971

OCLC:

963910027