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Table of Contents
General Introduction
Part I: Trajectories of Mediated Urbanity
Chapter One: An Archaeology of the Media City: Towards a Critical Cultural History of
Mediated Urbanism
Chapter Two: The Semiotics of Urban Space
Chapter Three: Understanding Urban Screen Media and Cultures
Chapter Four: Urban Cinema and Photography: On Cities and "Cityness"
Chapter Five: Television and the City
Chapter Six: Journalism: An Urban Affair
Chapter Seven: Outdoor Advertising and the Remediation of Public Space(s):
Commercialization and Beyond
Chapter Eight: Consumption-centered Urban Restructuring and the Mediation of Urban Life:
From Spaces of Production to the Worlds of Seduction
Chapter Nine: On the Move: On Mobile Agoras, Networked Selves, and the Contemporary
City
Chapter Ten: Cities of Feet and Hands: Urban Habitations
Chapter Eleven: Subjectivity in the Media City: The Media Life and Representation of the Cosmopolitan Stranger
Part II: Media as Urban Infrastructure; City Spaces as Media
Chapter Twelve: The City Is Not a Computer: On Museums, Libraries, and Archives
Chapter Thirteen: Urban Monuments and the Spatialization of National Ideologies
Chapter Fourteen: Artificial Light and the Modernist Redefinition of Urban Space: Reading
the "Electropolis"
Chapter Fifteen: Urban Transport and Telecommunications: Dual Forms of the
Communicative Skeleton of the City
Chapter Sixteen: Global Cities as Mediated Spaces: The Role of Media in Forming
Contradictory Places
Chapter Seventeen: Our Own Devices: Living in the Smart Home
Chapter Eighteen: Surveillance as an Urban Way of Life
Chapter Nineteen: Urban Media as Infrastructure for Social Change
Chapter Twenty: In the Air Tonight: The Struggles of Communicating About Urban
Environmental Quality
Chapter Twenty-One: The Promises and Pitfalls of Cyber Urbanism: Governance and
Participation
Chapter Twenty-Two: Tools of the Trade: Urban Planning, Urban Media, and theRefashioning of Urban Space
Part III: Media Cities as Sites of Creative Industries and Post-Industrial Urbanism
Chapter Twenty-Three: From "Creative Cities" to "Media Cities": The Cases of Manchester
and Shanghai
Chapter Twenty-Four: Branding, Promotion, and Urban Tourism
Chapter Twenty-Five: "European Capital of Culture" and the Primacy of Cultural
Infrastructure in Post-Industrial Urbanism
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Mediat(izat)ion of Urban Leisure: Screening the Event
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Media Architecture: Post screens, Ante [Insert here]
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Fashion: An Urban Industry of Style
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Digital Public Art: Installations and Interventions
Chapter Thirty: Urban Nightlife Cultures
Chapter Thirty-One: Urban Gaming: Mobile Media, Spatial Practices and Everyday Play
Chapter Thirty-Two: From Subculture to Scene: Urban Media Practices from Below
Chapter Thirty-Three: Documenting Urban Neighborhoods and Claiming the Right to the City
Part IV: Spaces and Practices of Daily Life in Mediated Cities
Chapter Thirty-Four: The Senses and the City: Attention, Distraction and Media Technology
in Urban Environments
Chapter Thirty-Five: Navigating Hybrid Urban Spaces: Smartphones and Locative Media
Practices
Chapter Thirty-Six: Media Audiences in the Urban Context
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Temporary Inscriptions: Exploring Graffiti and Street Art in the Age of
Internetization of Everyday Urban Life
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Creating a Situation in the City: Embodied Spaces and the Act of
Crossing Boundaries
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Mediated Urban Protest: Practicing Dissent in Hybrid City Spaces
Chapter Forty: Community, Media, and the City
Chapter Forty-One: "The Street is the Message": Racial Violence and the White Control of
Mobility
Chapter Forty-Two: Living in the Disadvantaged End of "Dual Cities": Understanding the
Urban Poor and the Precariat
Chapter Forty-Three: The Politics of Sexuality in Mediated Cities
Chapter Forty-Four: Methodological Approaches in Urban Media and Communication
Research
