Programme & Papers
The individual papers below have also been collated and edited into this single document.
Note: Also emerging out this event was a special Debates and Developments issue on 'Re-engaging the Intersections of Media, Politics and Cities' in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, March 2009, 33(1).
| Monday 9 June | |||
| 10.00 – 11.00 | Arrival with coffee/tea and pastries |
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| 11.00 – 11.20 | Mediapolis: an introduction | ||
| 11.20 – 13.00 | PANEL: Theorising Media/Urban Spaces |
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| Chair: Scott Rodgers, The Open University | |||
| Where is public space? | |||
Clive Barnett, The Open University |
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| Public address and the city (or, what’s wrong with outdoor advertising?) | |||
Kurt Iveson, University of Sydney |
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| Reflections on power topologies, media and communication | |||
John Allen, The Open University |
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| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch |
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| 14.00 – 15.30 | PANEL: Urban Histories, Media Histories |
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| Chair: Clive Barnett, The Open University | |||
| The ‘local rag' and urban histories | |||
Nick Hayes, Nottingham Trent University |
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| News architecture and the telautograph on Park Row | |||
Aurora Wallace, New York University |
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| Public spaces of discourse: innovations and interventions in colonial India | |||
Gurpreet Bhasin, The Open University |
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| 15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee/Tea |
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| 16.00 – 17.30 | PANEL: Journalistic Practices: Emerging Politics and Urban Geographies |
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| Chair: Joe Smith, The Open University | |||
| The death of the city paper? Neglected trends in urban journalistic practices | |||
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University |
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| New communication technologies and the phenomenology of journalism | |||
Tim Markham, Birkbeck, University of London |
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| Media change, urban publics and urban politics | |||
Scott Rodgers, The Open University |
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| Tuesday 10 June | |||
| 9.30 – 11.00 | PANEL: Mediating Difference and Conflict in the City |
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| Chair: Melissa Butcher, The Open University | |||
| Mediating the cosmo-polis: close encounters in cities of difference | |||
Myria Georgiou, University of Leeds |
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| Thinking about domestic and other images in urban spaces | |||
Gillian Rose, The Open University |
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Security and difference in the mediapolis: towards a comparative analysis of city sensoria |
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Marie Gillespie, The Open University |
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| 11.00 – 11.30 | Coffee/Tea |
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| 11.30 – 13.00 | PANEL: Publicity, Communication and Urban Politics |
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| Chair: Allan Cochrane, The Open University | |||
| Reason in the city? Publicity, communication and urban politics | |||
Gary Bridge, University of Bristol |
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| New urban politics and the media: an overview | |||
Kevin Ward, The University of Manchester |
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| Sensible evidences | |||
Mustafa Dikeç, Royal Holloway, University of London |
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| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch |
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| 14.00 – 15.30 | PANEL: Mediapolis: rethinking the intersections of media, politics and cities |
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| Chair: Scott Rodgers, The Open University | |||
| Discussants: | |||
| Joe Painter, Durham University | |||
| Farida Vis, The Open University | |||
| Joe Smith, The Open University | |||
| Allan Cochrane, The Open University | |||
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee/Tea and departure | ||
