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
diverse 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 rise 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. Charting key 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.
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