[ecrea] New Special Section on XUrban Communication ResearchX Published

The International Journal of Communication has published a new Special
Section on “Urban Communication Research.”

Cities are central to the media landscapes and communication practices of
our times, ranging from the wide appeal of urban popular cultures and the
global resonance of protests in squares to the ubiquity of public screens
and locative media in urban space. Over the past decade, scholars have
become increasingly interested in cities because a close look at urban life
may offer answers to important questions about contemporary media and
communication: How do individuals and communities interact through the media
or face-to-face in urban settings?  How does the urban built environment
shape and constrain the everyday lives of city dwellers?  How do dominant
narratives about cities promote particular forms of civic engagement and
social change?

The networks, proximities, creativities, and inequalities that animate
cities are at the heart of some of the major debates that sustain the
discipline.

Urban communication scholarship is concerned with the ways in which people
connect (or don’t connect) with others and with their urban environment
via symbolic, technological and/or material means. This Special Section on
methods and methodologies for urban communication research breaks new
ground. For the first time, a group of established scholars reflect
systematically on how research on urban communication is done, why
particular questions matter, and how they and others have examined specific
aspects of the urban/communication nexus.

Guest-edited by Giorgia Aiello and Simone Tosoni, this Special Section
features seven original articles that cover different disciplinary points of
view, including documentary (Daniel Makagon, Mary Rachel Gould), audiencing
(Simone Tosoni, Seija Ridell), material (Greg Dickinson, Giorgia Aiello),
visual (Luc Pauwels), mixed-method (Matthew D. Matsaganis), ecological
(Stephen Coleman, Nancy Thumim, Giles Moss), and applied (Susan Drucker,
Gary Gumpert) perspectives on urban communication.

The Special Section works as a springboard for a timely and much-needed
conversation on the key methodological principles, processes and practices
that underlie urban communication as an area of inquiry in its own right.
Taken together, the articles highlight the multifaceted nature of this body
of work and invite scholars to keep reflecting on how media and
communication research can produce groundbreaking empirical knowledge on
cities. Even more, these articles show that research in and on cities may
fundamentally change current outlooks on media and communication as a whole.


Going About the City:  Methods and Methodologies for Urban Communication
Research—Introduction
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/5416/1589
Giorgia Aiello, Simone Tosoni

Learning the City Through Stories: Audio Documentary as Urban Communication
Pedagogy
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3656/1590
Daniel Makagon, Mary Rachel Gould

Decentering Media Studies, Verbing the Audience: Methodological
Considerations Concerning People’s Uses of Media in Urban Space
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4231/1591
Simone Tosoni, Seija Ridell

Being Through There Matters: Materiality, Bodies, and Movement in Urban
Communication Research
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4280/1592
Greg Dickinson, Giorgia Aiello

Visually Researching and Communicating the City: A Systematic Assessment of
Methods and Resources
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4249/1593
Luc Pauwels

Multi- and Mixed-Methods Approaches to Urban Communication Research: A
Synthesis and the Road Ahead
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3923/1594
Matthew D. Matsaganis

Researching Local News in a Big City: A Multimethod Approach
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4282/1595
Stephen Coleman, Nancy Thumim, Giles Moss

The Communicative City Redux
http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4237/1596
Susan Drucker, Gary Gumpert

We invite you to read these papers that published February 23, 2016 at
http://ijoc.org

Giorgia Aiello & Simone Tosoni
Guest Editors

Larry Gross
Editor

Arlene Luck
Managing Editor
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International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
USC Annenberg Press
University of Southern California
http://ijoc.org/



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