Mediapolis was a two-day interdisciplinary workshop hosted by the Department of Geography at The Open University on 9-10 June 2008. It brought together scholars from across a range of disciplines to discuss and explore the cities-media interface with a twin emphasis on practices and politics.

The major aim of this intellectual dialogue was to encourage new thinking on the political nature of cities and media alike, around a series of broader workshop questions. In addition, the workshop specifically sought to direct renewed attention to the place of broadly 'journalistic' practices in enacting an urban politics, and the ways such journalistic media enter into and are used across a range of everyday practices and organized activities in, and in relation to, cities.

This website now acts as a record of and repository for the workshop and its related projects. You can still access the workshop programme, which includes electronic access to the introductory paper as well as the short discussion papers provided by participants in advance of the workshop. Also emerging out this event is a special Debates and Developments issue on 'Re-engaging the Intersections of Media, Politics and Cities' which recently appeared in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, March 2009, 33(1).

You can also view a series of photos from the event.

For more details on this event and broader project, please enquire with the workshop organizers.