With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural and political trajectories of urban societies are increasingly urgent. Media and the City explores the global city as the site where these questions become most prominent.
Media consumption and communication technologies' appropriation become increasingly important in the formation of shared identities for populations spread across the globe. In exploring the trends, this book adopts a spatial approach and looks into the locations of diasporic life: the domestic, the public, the urban and the transnational space.
"...A public lecture series ... inviting speakers to present in and around Melbourne-and more recently online..." -- V.2: page 11