Public Space, Media Space (eBook)

MONA ABAZA Professor of Sociology at the American University in Cairo, Egypt MICHAEL BULL Reader in Media at the University of Sussex, UK FRANCESCO CASETTI Professor of Film and Media at Yale University, USA BEATRIZ COLOMINA Architectural historian and theorist ANNE M. CRONIN Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University, UK TAMSIN DILLON Director of Art on the Underground HELEN GRACE Visiting Professor at National Central University in Taiwan ZLATAN KRAJINA University of Zagreb, Croatia MARYSIA LEWANDOWSKA Artist LISA PARKS Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction; C.Berry, J.Harbord & R.O.Moore What Is a Screen Nowadays?; F.Casetti Multi-Screen Architecture; B.Colomina Mapping Orbit: Towards a Vertical Public Space; L.Parks Cairo Diary: Space-Wars, Public Visibility and the Transformation of Public Space in Post-Revolutionary Egypt; M.Abaza Shanghai's Public Screen Culture: Local and Coeval; C.Berry iPhone Girl: Assembly, Assemblages and Affect in the Life of an Image; H.Grace In Transit: Between Labor and Leisure in London's St. Pancras International; R.Moore Encountering Screen Art on the London Underground; J.Harbord & T.Dillon Direct Address: A Brechtian Proposal for an Alternative Working Method; M.Lewandowska Domesticating the Screen-Scenography: Situational Uses of Screen Images and Technologies in the London Underground; Z.Krajina Privatizing Urban Space in the Mediated World of iPod Users; M.Bull Publics and Publicity: Outdoor Advertising and Urban Space; A.M.Cronin Index