[Commlist] New Book: The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication

/The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication/ traces 
central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on 
mediated cities and urban communication. The volume brings together 
diverse perspectives and global case studies to map key areas of 
research within media, cultural and urban studies, where a joint focus 
on communications and cities has made important innovations in how we 
understand urban space, technology, identity and community.

Exploring the rise and growing complexity of urban media and 
communication as the next key theme for both urban and media studies, 
the book gathers and reviews fast-developing knowledge on specific 
emergent phenomena such as reading the city as symbol and text; 
understanding urban infrastructures as media (and vice-versa); the rise 
of global cities; urban and suburban media cultures: newspapers, cinema, 
radio, television and the mobile phone; changing spaces and practices of 
urban consumption; the mediation of the neighborhood, community and 
diaspora; the centrality of culture to urban regeneration; communicative 
responses to urban crises such as racism, poverty and pollution; the 
role of street art in the negotiation of ‘the right to the city’; city 
competition and urban branding; outdoor advertising; moving image 
architecture; ‘smart’/cyber urbanism; and the emergence of Media City 
production spaces and clusters.

Charting key debates and neglected connections between cities and media, 
this book challenges what we know about contemporary urban living and 
introduces innovative frameworks for understanding cities, media and 
their futures. As such, it will be an essential resource for students 
and scholars of media and communication studies, urban communication, 
urban sociology, urban planning and design, architecture, visual 
cultures, urban geography, art history, politics, cultural studies, 
anthropology and cultural policy studies, as well as those working with 
governmental agencies, cultural foundations and institutes, and policy 
think tanks.

Zlatan Krajina is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University 
of Zagreb, Croatia.

Deborah Stevenson is Professor of Sociology and Urban Cultural Research 
in the Institute of Culture and Society at the Western Sydney 
University, Australia.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Urban-Media-and-Communication-1st-Edition/Krajina-Stevenson/p/book/9780415792554


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