New book Maps as Media edited by Alex Gekker
Maps have escaped from the confines of road atlases or decorative frames to being ubiquitous on our screens. Using a GPS while driving, looking for a shop on Google Maps, or … Read more...
Special Issue of Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture edited by Carolyn Birdsall, Linda Kopitz and Alex Gekker
The city is a playground. But is it really? This dossier takes this recurring metaphor as a starting point to explore … Read more...
Special Issue of Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture edited by Linda Kopitz and Pei-Sze Chow
The foundational manifesto written by Joan Tronto draws an implicit connection between care and place in its emphasis on shifting care from the … Read more...
Alex Gekker in Mobile Media & Communication
The paper explores Google Maps’ COVID-19 layer, a special feature launched by the cartographic platform in September 2020, and shut down two years later. Through the reading of promotional corporate blogposts and interfacial … Read more...
By Ben Moore
Ben Moore presents a new approach to reading urban modernity in nineteenth-century literature, by bringing together hidden, mobile and transparent features of city space as part of a single system he calls ‘invisible architecture’. Resisting narratives of … Read more...
Jelke R. Bosma and Niels van Doorn in Space and Culture
In this article, we argue that it is analytically productive to think about the professionalization of hosting on Airbnb in terms of (commercial) gentrification. More precisely, we believe that … Read more...
Timo Koren in European Journal of Cultural Studies
Understanding regulation is key to identifying and understanding the mechanisms and patterns that (re)produce social inequalities in nightclub production. Roughly speaking, researchers have focused on two forms of regulation: governmental regulation and … Read more...
Special Issue WARP Walking Practices x Soapbox Journal edited by Alice Twemlow and Tânia A. Cardoso
Walking centres the body in a research practice. The body that gets cold, sweaty, thirsty, or blistered. The body that encompasses feelings, emotions, prejudices, … Read more...
This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city – depictions of the city as an … Read more...
Journal Article
Linda Kopitz
2022
Journal Article
Tânia A. Cardoso
2022
Journal Article
Jelke R. Bosma and Niels van Doorn
2022
Journal Article
Tânia A. Cardoso
2021
Special Issue
Carolyn Birdsall, Anastasiya Halauniova and Linda van de Kamp
2021
Journal Article
Jelke R. Bosma
2021
Journal Article
Tânia A. Cardoso
2021
Chapter
Tânia A. Cardoso
2020
Edited book
Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch, and Daan Wesselman
2020
Journal Article
Kasia Mika and Ilan Kelman
2020
Book Chapter
Alex Gekker and Sam Hind
2019
Book
Simon Ferdinand
2019
Edited book
Imre Szeman and Jeff Diamanti
2019
Edited book
2019
Simon Ferdinand, Irene Villaescusa-Illán, and Esther Peeren
Journal Article
Tânia A. Cardoso
2019
Special issue
Carolyn Birdsall and Simone Kalkman
2018
Edited book
Pedram Dibazar and Judith Naeff
2018
Review Essay
Karin Christof
2018
Book Review
Simon Ferdinand
2018
Journal Article
Pedram Dibazar
2017
Journal Article
Carolyn Birdsall and Danielle Drozdzewski
2017
Journal Article
Karin Christof
2017
Book Chapter
Ben Moore
2017
Journal Article
Simon Ferdinand
2016