[ecrea] Communicating the City: Meanings, Practices, Interactions (Edited by Giorgia Aiello, Matteo Tarantino, and Kate Oakley)

/Communicating the City: Meanings, Practices, Interactions/

Giorgia Aiello, Matteo Tarantino, and Kate Oakley, Eds.


A new book in the Urban Communication series, Peter Lang (2017)

https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/31557


Challenging notions of the ‘urban’ as physically, economically or 
technologically determined/,/ //this book explores key intersections of 
discourse, materiality, technology, mobility, identity and inequality in 
acts of communication across urban and urbanizing contexts. From leisure 
and media consumption among Chinese migrant workers in a Guangdong 
village to the diverse networks and communication infrastructures of 
global cities like London and Los Angeles, /Communicating the 
City/combines a range of perspectives to ask fundamental questions about 
the significance and status of cities in times of intensified mediation 
and connectivity. With case studies from Italy, Britain, Ireland, 
Russia, the United States and China, this international collection 
demonstrates that both empirical and critical knowledge on the 
relationship between communication and urban life has become vital 
across the humanities and social sciences.


Taken together, the book’s twelve chapters engage with the close 
relationship of communication and urban space and place while also 
providing an overview of the various questions and methodologies that 
are at the heart of urban communication as a field of inquiry in its own 
right. Advance praise for the book suggests that /Communicating the 
City/will be essential reading for all scholars and students who desire 
to gain an in-depth understanding of the multiple roles that media and 
communication have in lived experiences of the city.


“‘We shall think of the urban in and outside of cities.’ With these 
words, /Communicating the City/takes a giant step forward in 
rethinking—and decentring—the relations between communicative practices 
and urbanity. The book’s challenge to discipline-bounded theories will 
be debated seriously by the next generation of scholars and students in 
communication, urban studies, geography, media studies, and cultural 
studies. It is thoughtful and inspiring, powered by acute and lively 
analyses.”

-- John N. Erni, Hong Kong Baptist University.


“/Communicating the City/uncovers a range of overlapping layers of 
meaning that shape the unique experiences of being in the city. This is 
the first collection to bring together top scholars from around the 
globe who analyze the city as a site of communication in a globalized, 
transnational context.”

-- Daniel Makagon, DePaul University.


“With an express purpose to decentre considerations of mediation and 
urban space, and chapters spanning a remarkably diverse array of cities 
from Europe, the United States, China and beyond, /Communicating the 
City/ provides a most welcome contribution to debates at the heart of 
‘the city’ in media and communication studies and neighbouring disciplines.”

-- Miyase Christensen, Stockholm University; KTH Royal Institute of 
Technology.


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