Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.2020861
Emily Winderman, Robert Mejia
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic shifted relationships between hegemonic sensory perceptions and disease epistemologies. The affective pedagogies of the COVID-19 sensorium signal vectors and victims of disease through racialized, classed, and gendered assemblages of sensory presence and absence. Present sounds of weaponized coughing suture white consumerist entitlement to violate public health imperatives. The coughs in the film Corona critique the rise of anti-Asian violence and demonstrate how sound is intelligible through available stereotypes and circulating xenophobic rhetoric. Amid asymptomatic spread, appeals to “Typhoid Mary” Mallon—the first named asymptomatic typhoid carrier–re-emerged as another xenophobic sensory pedagogy to signify threatening absent symptoms.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.1995617
Seija Ridell
ABSTRACT For European media studies, Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding model epitomizes the transition from the mass communication research paradigm to the cultural one in the 1970s. Given its canonical status, Hall’s model offers an apt point of reference for reflecting on the challenges that cultural media studies itself faces today—after more than a decade into the turn to materiality in social theory. My suggestion is that the pervasively computed contemporary city provides a strategic context for media scholars in discussing the theoretical relevance of the encoding/decoding model, as well as semiotic models more generally, in terms of the ongoing paradigm shift.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.1995616
Scott Rodgers
ABSTRACT Scholarship has recently sprouted up around the notion of “platform urbanism.” In this article, I outline an approach to the specifically communicative politics emerging through, and in relation to, platform infrastructures by drawing on research and observations in London, UK. Defending a phenomenological perspective, which sidesteps an a priori definition of platforms or infrastructures, I put forward a way of thinking about the experiential duality of platforms for urban politics. Here, platform infrastructures can appear as both: emergent objects of urban political concern; and withdrawn media, shaping spatial experience and the political meanings that are made of those spaces.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.1995618
G. Aiello
ABSTRACT In this article, I introduce the idea of “the visible city,” which foregrounds the central role played by the urban built environment in cities’ quest for recognition. In the visible city, the urban built environment becomes a medium of communication and a form of currency in its own right for the acquisition of symbolic capital. I specifically discuss two concepts that underpin my understanding of the visible city, namely distinction and aesthetics. Overall, I highlight the relationship between these two widely used concepts to ask questions about the relationship between visual-material communication and urban transformation.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.1995619
T. Lokot
ABSTRACT This essay examines citizens’ use of cities as communicative spaces for expressing “Europeanness” – both in everyday life and in moments of mass mobilisation. It critically reflects on the notion of European urbanity as an aspirational, yet problematic ideal and seeks to decentre (Western) Europe as the default source of ideas about what it means to be European by attending to “peripheral” voices at Europe’s edge. It examines the events and symbolism of Ukraine’s 2013–2014 Euromaidan protest and its aftermath as a microcosm that reflects the broader negotiation of Ukraine’s imaginary of Europe and its own place within that imaginary.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.1995615
Myria Georgiou
ABSTRACT This article’s point of departure is the observed retreat of techno-centric conceptions of optimal cities and their replacement by a curious human-centrism in media, corporate, and policy discursive constructions of cities. This human-centrism hides an emerging urban order: the digital order. The digital order is realised through discourses and practices that promote controlled cities, not through coercion and visible policing, but instead through a technologized promise of seemingly progressive values. The multiple and contradictory claims to urban humans revealed in the digital order, the article concludes, demand renewed attention to the human – a critical humanist perspective to cities and technology.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.1995614
G. Aiello
ABSTRACT This special forum includes six contributions by scholars affiliated with the European Communication Research and Education (ECREA) “Media, Cities and Space” Section. It focuses on “European” urban communication research as a way to explore what matters, both critically and theoretically, in media and communication studies of the urban. As a whole, the special forum aims to “decentre” existing assumptions regarding the urban locales, critical questions, and conceptual outlooks covered in each contribution-both from pre-constituted notions of “Europeanness” and from dominant approaches to the relationship between communication, media, and the urban.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.1998564
Z. Krajina
ABSTRACT Studies of mediated cities argue that urban signage (public screens, outdoor advertising, media façades) symbolizes the centrality of communication in post-industrial urbanism. This correct general argument also tends to be geographically limited to centrally positioned cities in a service economy. I explore how the peripheral position of Zagreb, constructed during permanent political transition (Austro-Hungarian Empire, Yugoslavia, EU, etc.) has made its urban signage especially diverse and seemingly chaotic. I argue that relating urban communication to national and transnational identities offers important, under-explored directions for research, particularly reminding us that display usually also means the opposite.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.1953700
Jaden Janak
ABSTRACT Prison industrial complex abolition (PIC abolition) is the creative force that propels us to imagine worlds unseen and yet already here. For this project, I constructed a fictional abolitionist world—a world in which prisons and police become unthinkable, and community care is inevitable. Building on the transnational organizing work of scholar-organizers such as Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Kelli Gillespie, and Vanessa Thompson, this work hopes to break open the imaginative limitations of the carceral state and imagine the otherwise possible. What would it look like to take seriously the project of P.I.C. abolition as an already unfolding possibility? “Abolition is Here” hopes to find out.
废除监狱工业综合体(PIC废除)是一种创造性的力量，它推动我们想象一个看不见却已经存在的世界。在这个项目中，我构建了一个虚构的废奴主义世界——在这个世界里，监狱和警察变得不可想象，社区护理是不可避免的。在Ruth Wilson Gilmore、Kelli Gillespie和Vanessa Thompson等学者组织的跨国组织工作的基础上，本作品希望打破禁锢状态的想象限制，想象其他可能的情况。如果把废除人保权的计划视为一种正在展开的可能性，会是什么样子?“废除就在这里”希望找到答案。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.1954211
K. Councilor
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