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This book is an interdisciplinary empirical investigation of how
people interact with public screens in their daily lives. In more
and more surprising locations, screens of various kinds appear
within the sightlines of passers-by in contemporary cities. Outdoor
advertisers target audiences which are increasingly mobile, public
art uses screens to interrogate urban change, while postmodern
architecture finds electronic imagery a suitable tool of
expression. Traditionally, urban sociology research has assumed
that people seek to filter urban stimuli, but recent accounts of
public screens suggest producers design and position display
interfaces site-specifically, so as to engage with those moving
past. This study offers insight both into the dynamics of actual
encounters and into the long-term process of how people learn to
live with repeated invitations to consume media in public spaces.
The book includes four cases: street advertising, underground
transport advertising, and installation art in London (UK) and
media facade architecture in Zadar (Croatia). Krajina shows that
maintaining familiarity with everyday surroundings in media cities
that change beyond citizens' control is a temporary
achievement--and a recursive struggle.
This book is an interdisciplinary empirical investigation of how
people interact with public screens in their daily lives. In more
and more surprising locations, screens of various kinds appear
within the sightlines of passers-by in contemporary cities. Outdoor
advertisers target audiences which are increasingly mobile, public
art uses screens to interrogate urban change, while postmodern
architecture finds electronic imagery a suitable tool of
expression. Traditionally, urban sociology research has assumed
that people seek to filter urban stimuli, but recent accounts of
public screens suggest producers design and position display
interfaces site-specifically, so as to engage with those moving
past. This study offers insight both into the dynamics of actual
encounters and into the long-term process of how people learn to
live with repeated invitations to consume media in public spaces.
The book includes four cases: street advertising, underground
transport advertising, and installation art in London (UK) and
media facade architecture in Zadar (Croatia). Krajina shows that
maintaining familiarity with everyday surroundings in media cities
that change beyond citizens' control is a temporary
achievement--and a recursive struggle. Finalist for the Jane Jacobs
Urban Communication Foundation book award, 2014
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.
What is the meaning of the Balkans in the early 21st century?
Former Yugoslav countries seek a self-flattering alliance with 'the
West' via EU membership, while the Union's citizens increasingly
declare to be 'Eurosceptic'. At the same time, economic turmoil in
countries like Greece confronts massive incoming waves of refugees,
for whom Europe's south-eastern borders are the nearest shelter. In
this time of crisis, the Balkans return on the agenda as a parable
of Europe's haunting questions about its future. EU, Europe
Unfinished brings together established and emerging media and
cultural scholars to explore colliding visions of space and
identity within a declining continent. Whereas Europe imagines the
Balkans to be the source of its nearest trouble, the region
envisions Europe as a refuge from ongoing post-socialist
transition. The book adopts a variety of critical perspectives -
from media and policy analysis to anthropology, art history and
autobiography - to investigate where Europe is headed with the
Balkans in its skein, 25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
What is the meaning of the Balkans in the early 21st century?
Former Yugoslav countries seek a self-flattering alliance with 'the
West' via EU membership, while the Union's citizens increasingly
declare to be 'Eurosceptic'. At the same time, economic turmoil in
countries like Greece confronts massive incoming waves of refugees,
for whom Europe's south-eastern borders are the nearest shelter. In
this time of crisis, the Balkans return on the agenda as a parable
of Europe's haunting questions about its future. EU, Europe
Unfinished brings together established and emerging media and
cultural scholars to explore colliding visions of space and
identity within a declining continent. Whereas Europe imagines the
Balkans to be the source of its nearest trouble, the region
envisions Europe as a refuge from ongoing post-socialist
transition. The book adopts a variety of critical perspectives -
from media and policy analysis to anthropology, art history and
autobiography - to investigate where Europe is headed with the
Balkans in its skein, 25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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