Communicating the City

Giorgia Aiello is an associate professor in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. She has published widely on the aesthetics of urban regeneration, urban communication research methods, and promotional communication in urban contexts. Matteo Tarantino is a research associate at the University of Geneva and an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of Milan. Kate Oakley is Professor of Cultural Policy in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. Her most recent books are Culture, Economy and Politics: The Case of New Labour (with David Hesmondhalgh, David Lee and Melissa Nisbett; 2015) and Cultural Policy (with David Bell; 2015).

List of Figures – Acknowledgements – Susan Drucker/Gary Gumpert: Foreword – Giorgia Aiello/Matteo Tarantino: Introduction: Communicating the city between the centre and the margins – Part One: Imagining The City – Carole O’Reilly: Journalism and the changing act of observation: Writing about cities in the British press 1880–1940 – Davide Lampugnani: Questioning the smart city: From techno-entrepreneurial to intelligence-enabling – Greg Dickinson/Brian L. Ott: Spatial materialities: Coproducing imaged/inhabited spaces – Joan Faber McAlister: Vedic Victorians on American Gothic’s landscape: Relocating "foreign" architecture and restoring the spatial figure of juxtaposition – Part Two: Making The City – Matteo Tarantino/Chung-Tai Cheng: Rural spaces, urban textures: Media, leisure, and identity in a Southern China industrial village – Federica Timeto: Practices of location-sharing and the performances of locative identity among Italian users of Foursquare – Paolo Cardullo: Urban change and the mesh: An ethnography of Deptford’s Open Wireless Network – Matthew Matsaganis: The communication infrastructure that supports life in the city and enables urban community change – Part Three: Sharing The City – Gill Harold: Interrogating phonocentrism in the "hearing" city: Exploring Deaf experiences – Jonathan Corpus Ong/Tony Zhiyang Lin: Plague in the city: Digital media as shaming apparatus toward mainland Chinese "locusts" in Hong Kong – Aleksandra Nenko/Anisya Khokhlova/Nikita Basov: Communication and knowledge creation in urban spaces: The tactics of artistic collectives in Barcelona, Berlin, and St. Petersburg – Wallis Motta/Myria Georgiou: Community through multiple connectivities: Mapping communication assets in multicultural London – Kate Oakley/Giorgia Aiello: Afterword: Communication and the city – Notes on Contributors – Index.