Out now: Urban Communication Forum in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
We are pleased to announce the publication of a special forum.
The piece edited by Giorgia Aiello, is for the NCA journal Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies on "(De)centring Europe in Urban Communication Research":https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rccc20/18/4?nav=tocList
The 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 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.
Here you can find the introduction to the forum: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14791420.2021.1995614
And here are the six essays included in the forum:
- Myria Georgiou "Making an urban human? The digital order and its curious human-centrism"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14791420.2021.1995615
- Scott Rodgers "The duality of platforms as infrastructures for urban politics"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14791420.2021.1995616
- Seija Ridell "From Hey, you there! to Got you: re-materializing the encoding/decoding model in the computationally mediated city"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14791420.2021.1995617
- Giorgia Aiello "The visible city"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14791420.2021.1995618
- Zlatan Krajina "De-westernizing mediated city research: display and decay in Zagreb’s urban signage"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14791420.2021.1998564
- Tetyana Lokot "Ukraine is Europe? Complicating the concept of the ‘European’ in the wake of an urban protest"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14791420.2021.1995619
Three out of the six essays in the forum are open access, and please do feel free to get in touch with the editor and/or authors if you’d like to receive a copy of any of the forum essays.
