Organisers’ description:
The MEDIA & THE CITY Temporary Working Group is happy to announce the organization of its first Workshop. The Workshop will take place on FEBRUARY 10, 2012, at the CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY of MILAN, ITALY.
Workshop overview
The first TWG Workshop will feature parallel sessions and a final plenary. During the parallel sessions, members will be able to share and discuss their research. The final plenary session will discuss the organizational aspects of the Group and delineate future activities. Parallel sessions will be open to all interested scholars, while the plenary will be open only for TWG members.
Selected papers (see website for full details):
Giorgia Aiello – The urban built environment as global(ist) communication: Concepts, methods, critique
Clemens Apprich – Rise and fall of the city metaphor to describe digital networks in the 1990s
Girogio Bacchiega – Peripheral views on Milan
Giovanni Caruso, Riccardo Fassone, Gabriele Ferri and Mauro Salvador – Check-in everywhere: Places, people, narrations, games
Mariana Ciancia and Walter Mattana – Imagine Milan: An audiovisual design thinking approach to the image of the city
Andrea Cuman – Hardcopy vs digital mobile travel guidebooks: A preliminary comparison on mediated spatial interactino and a case study
Amedeo Damato – Cities of blood and longing. The protagonist’s architectural projection in Hollywood cinema
Miriam De Rosa – Cinematic architectures IN SITU. Notes on the participatory construction of a visual urban imagery
Manuela Farinosi – New media and the city in an “out of ordinary” context: Exploring the motivations behind the citizen journalism production after a natural disaster
Gabriele Ferri and Patrick Coppock – Serious urban games. From play in the city to play for the city
Katalin Feher – Digital urban identities
Cezary Hunkiewicz – City as a medium: The space and street art activities
Angelo Imperiale – Avoiding urban marginality: How to build social sustainability?
Sami Kolamo – Branding urban spaces through football media spectacles
Peter Maroldt – New media and the Asian city
Gonca Noyan – Old bridge as a symbol of multiculturalism: Global discourse and local narratives in Mostar
Christian Oggolder – Losing centrality – urban spaces and the network society
Seja Ridell – The cybercity as a medium. Public living and agency in the digitally shaped urban space
Gabriella Sandstig – There is a light that never goes out – cultivation effects on the freedom of movement in urban and suburban public places
Barbara Scifo – The sense of place from mobile communicatino to locative media
Katia Segers, Joost Vaesen and Rudi Janssens – Opportunities and dangers of Brussels media for its Dutch-speaking minority. Research on audience use, expectations and appreciation
Satomi Sugyiama – The muted mobile in Tokyo
Moira Sweeney – Space and the geographical imagination on the Dublin Docklands
Robert Szwed – Researching media representations of the city. Preliminary remarks on how to measure representations of Lublin, Poland
Matteo Tarantino and Simone Tosoni – Convergent media and social production of space: An approach through controversies
Federica Timeto – In the middle of urban space: The case of critical city
Ferenc Zsélyi – Concrete dreamworks
Ferenc Zsélyi, István András and Mónika Rajcsányi-Molnár – Global staging in a postindustrial city: Dunaújváros, the media platform of intercultural networking
Weiming Ye – Phoenix man and woman: Discussions on urban and rural gap in Chinese BBS forums
“Three main aspects can be identified today that define an “urban question” different from the past: first, the growing distance between the rich and the poor, second, the environmental risks, and third the mobility crises. The ‘question’ is and will be ‘urban’ because it is in the urban context that the largest part of the world population lives. It is in the context of the city that the question is most apparent and gains a sense of urgency.(…)” 
