Please join us on Friday, October 25th at 9 am EST for the first of our forthcoming virtual book talks! Our first selection is Home Screens: Public Housing in Global Film & Television from Bloomsbury U.S.. Register here: lu.ma/f66s6nqs

One more week to submit an abstract (300 words) for our Mediapolis Journal special issue on #PlayableCities – coming out in Autumn 2025!

Deadline approaching: Projection Activism – The Right to the City in Mediated Space. Abstracts due October 15; 3,000-4,000 word articles due February 1, 2025. tinyurl.com/yvwx27pu

We are delighted to announce a second online talk! On November 8 (12 PM CST/1 pm EST/6 pm GMT) Professor Pamela Robertson Wojcik will introduce her new book "Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema" University of California Press (is on Bluesky) Register here: lu.ma/cjptbklw

Apply for @SCMSUrbanism's Graduate Student Writing Award! Students please consider applying, mentors please share this Award CFP with students! Deadline: January 31, 2025 Award: Publication in Mediapolis Journal & $200. Details are below. We look forward to your submissions!

PSA... Mediapolis Journal will continue to post here for now, but you can also find us over at Bluesky and on FB if you want to follow the journal elsewhere. Thanks!

From billboards to dirigibles, the outdoor advertising of Douglas Leigh incorporated theatrical techniques into the urban landscape. Jane Zhang shows how Leigh’s work mediated the relationship between individual and national identity in postwar America. wp.me/p6zYkX-3CX

Stefano Corbo traces the infrastructural and architectural development of Bologna’s computer centers, arguing that to understand the recent history of the city, we must pay attention to the material history of data. #mediaarchaeology wp.me/p6zYkX-3CI

In our From the Archive series, Ariel Dougherty looks back on her work with International Videoletters (1975–1977), a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges. mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/intern…

In the latest Mediapolis Q&A, Adam Ochonicky talks to Pamela Robertson Wojcik about her recent book, Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema. mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/wojcik…

Ipek Celik Rappas and Noelle Griffis select some key texts on Gentrification & Screen Media in the latest addition to our Reading and Resource List section. mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/gentri…

Still some time to apply for the SCMS Urbanism, Geography, and Architecture SIG SIG Graduate Writing Award in collaboration with Mediapolis Journal !

Stanley Corkin discusses his latest book, Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age, with Bruce Isaacs: mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/corkin…

Giorgia Rizzioli introduces the Projection Activism dossier with some reflections on urban projection as a means to assert the right to the city. mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/urban-…

From May 1968 to Black Lives Matter, visual and textual strategies have been central to protest movements. Giuseppe Previtali reflects on contemporary projection activism as a tool for bringing new political configurations into being. mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/take-y…

Giorgia Rizzioli explores how posthumanist theory helps us to understand the potential for projection activism as a feminist spatial practice. mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/projec…

Duncan Whitley and Mel Jordan discuss the various iterations of the film Phoenix City 2021 and the potential for site-based artworks to challenge placemaking narratives and the politics of the UK City of Culture. mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/phoeni…

In the latest episode of our Voices podcast, Burcu Baykurt discusses with Scott Rodgers her longstanding interests in Google as an increasingly influential agent in urban affairs, as well as her efforts to rethink 'test-bed urbanism' through the local. mediapolisjournal.com/2025/04/voices…