The Routledge companion to urban media and communication / edited by Zlatan Krajina and Deborah Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krajina, Zlatan, editor.

Stevenson, Deborah, 1958- editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Effect of technological innovations on.

Cities and towns.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Communication--Social aspects.

Communication.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Internet of things.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 488 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, Ny : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Zlatan Krajina is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he teaches graduate courses on media cities, media audiences and qualitative methodologies. Deborah Stevenson is Professor of Sociology and Urban Cultural Research in the Institute of Culture and Society at the Western Sydney University, Australia.

Summary:

"The Routledge companion to urban media and communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities and urban communication. The volume brings together key interdisciplinary perspectives and global case studies to map key areas of research within media, cultural and urban studies, where a joint focus on communications and cities has made important innovations in how we understand urban space, technology, identity, and community. Exploring the emergence and growing complexity of urban media and communication as the next key theme for both urban and media studies, the book gathers and reviews fast developing knowledge on specific emergent phenomena such as: -reading the city as symbol and text; understanding urban infrastructures as media (and vice-versa); the rise of global cities; urban and suburban media cultures: newspapers, cinema, radio, television and the mobile phone; changing spaces and practices of urban consumption; the mediation of the neighbourhood, community and diaspora; the centrality of culture to urban regeneration; communicative responses to urban crises such as racism, poverty and pollution; the role of street art in the negotiation of 'the right to the city'; city competition and urban branding; outdoor advertising; moving image architecture; 'smart'/cyber urbanism; the emergence of media city production spaces and clusters. Tracing emerging debates and neglected connections between cities and media, this book challenges what we know about contemporary urban living and introduces innovative frameworks for understanding cities, media, and their futures. As such, it will be an essential resource for students and scholars of media and communication studies, urban communication, urban sociology, urban planning and design, architecture, visual cultures, urban geography, art history, politics, cultural studies, anthropology and cultural policy studies, as well as those working with governmental agencies, cultural foundations and institutes, and policy think tanks"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; General Introduction; References; PART I: Trajectories of Mediated Urbanity; Introduction to Part I: Trajectories of Mediated Urbanity; References; Chapter 1: An Archaeology of the Media City: Toward a Critical Cultural History of Mediated Urbanism; Inventing the Media City; "Big City Life"; The Electric Media City; The Suburban Media City; The Digital Media City; The Future Media City?; References; Further Reading; Chapter 2: The Semiotics of Urban Space

Epistemological ConsiderationsPolitical Economy and the Semiotics of Urban Space; The Semiotic Analysis of Urban Space as Place; Approaches to the Semiotic Production of Urban Space; Approaches to the Semiotic Consumption of Urban Space; The Major Semiotic Models of Urban Space; References; Further Reading; Chapter 3: Understanding Urban Screen Media and Cultures; Introduction; Abundance of Screens, Abundance of Genealogies; Urban Screens as an Aesthetic Category; Conclusion; References; Further Reading; Chapter 4: Urban Cinema and Photography: On Cities and "Cityness"; Introduction

Intellectual FieldModernity; Surveillance; Time; References; Further Reading; Chapter 5: Television and the City; Introduction; Television, Modernity and the Suburb; Television Outside the Domestic; The City on Television; The Production of Television in the City: Creative Locales; References; Further Reading; Chapter 6: Journalism: An Urban Affair; Introduction; Journalism as a Culture of Public Circulation; Journalistic Placemaking; Journalistic Field Spaces; Conclusion; References; Further Reading

Chapter 7: Outdoor Advertising and the Remediation of Public Space(s): Commercialization and BeyondIntroduction; Outdoor Advertising in Historical Context; Commercialization and the "Public": Outdoor Advertising as Marketing Medium and Out-of-Home Screens; The Remediation of Urban Space Beyond Commercialization; Issues of Intersectionality; Conclusion: Regulation and Social Acceptance; References; Further Reading; Chapter 8: Consumption-Centered Urban Restructuring and the Mediation of Urban Life: From Spaces of Production to the Worlds of Seduction

Introduction: The Centrality of Consumption in the Material and Symbolic Transformation of CitiesUnderstanding Cities as Scenes and Objects of Consumption- Entangling Urban, Consumption, and Media Studies; Urban Change and the Production of Consumption Spaces in Central and Eastern Europe; An Outlook for Further Research; Acknowledgment; References; Further Reading; Chapter 9: On the Move: On Mobile Agoras, Networked Selves, and the Contemporary City; Introduction; Mobilities and Moorings: The Contemporary City Understood Through the "Mobilities Turn"; The City as a Political Space

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 02, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge companion to urban media and communication.

ISBN:

1315211637

9781351813266

1351813269

9781351813259

1351813250

9781351813273

1351813277

9781315211633

OCLC:

1107161641

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