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Books

Markham, T. and Rodgers, S. (eds) (2017) Conditions of mediation: Phenomenological perspectives on media. New York: Peter Lang

Journal Articles

Ballatore, A., Rodgers, S, McLoughlin, L. and Moore, S. (2024) ‘Facebook city: Place-named groups as urban communication infrastructure in Greater London‘ Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083231224136

Rodgers, S. (2021) ‘The duality of platforms as infrastructures for urban politics‘ Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. 18(4): 404–414.

Rodgers, S. (2018) ‘Roots and fields: Excursions through place, space and local in hyperlocal media‘ Media, Culture and Society. 40(6): 856-874.

Rodgers, S. (2018) ‘Digitizing localism: Anticipating, assembling and animating a ‘space’ for UK hyperlocal media production’ International Journal of Cultural Studies. 21(1): 73-89.

Morgan Parmett, H. and Rodgers, S. (2018) ‘Re-locating media production’ International Journal of Cultural Studies. 21(1): 3-11.

Rodgers, S. (2015) ‘Foreign objects? Web content management systems, journalistic cultures and the ontology of software‘ Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism. 16(1): 10-26.

Rodgers, S., Barnett, C. and Cochrane, A. (2014) ‘Media practices and urban politics: Conceptualizing the powers of the media-urban nexus‘ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 32(6): 1054-1070. Listen to a podcast on the paper.

Rodgers, S., C. Barnett and A. Cochrane (2014). ‘Where is urban politics?’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 38(5): 1551-1560.

Rodgers, S. (2014) ‘The architectures of media power: Editing, the newsroom and urban public space’ Space and Culture, 17(1), pp. 69-84

Rodgers, S. (2013) ‘Circulating cities of difference: Assembling geographical imaginations of Toronto’s diversity in the newsroom‘ JOMEC Journal, 1 (3)

Rodgers, S. (2013) ‘The journalistic field and the city: Some practical and organizational tales about the Toronto Star‘s New Deal for Cities‘ City and Community, 12 (1), pp. 56-77

Rodgers, S., C. Barnett and A. Cochrane (2009) ‘Mediating urban politics’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 33(1): 246-249.

Book Chapters

Rodgers, S. (2022) ‘Visualizing locality now: Objects, practices and environments of social media imagery around urban change’ In Seeing the city digitally: Processing urban space and time, Rose, G. (ed). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. OA version of entire book available here.

Rodgers, S. and Moore, S. (2021) ‘#saveourcinema / On Our Way! / Hi, My Name is Charlotte / Solidarity and Samosas / I Will Delete You‘ In: Platform urbanism and its discontents, Mörtenböck, P. and Mooshammer, H. (eds). Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers, pp. 131-140. 

Rodgers, S. and Moore, S. (2020) ‘Platform phenomenologies: Social media as experiential infrastructures of urban public life‘ In Urban platforms and the future city: Transformations in infrastructure, knowledge, governance and everyday life, Stehlin J, Hodson M, Kasmire J, et al. (eds). London: Routledge, pp. 209-222.

Moore, S. and Rodgers, S. (2020) ‘Researching urban life through social media‘ In Researching the city: A guide for students, 2nd edition. K. Ward (ed). London: Sage, pp. 165-180.

Rodgers, S. (2020) ‘Urban growth machine’ In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Kobayashi, A. (ed.) 2nd edition. vol. 14, Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 59–64.

Rodgers, S. (2019) ‘Journalism: An urban affair.‘ In: The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication. Z. Krajina and D. Stevenson (eds.) London: Routledge, pp. 66-75.

Morgan Parmett, H. and Rodgers, S. (2018) ‘Space, place and circulation: Three conceptual lenses into the spatialities of media production practices.’ In: Geomedia studies: Spaces and mobilities in mediatized worlds. K. Fast, A. Jansson, J. Lindell, L. Ryan Bengtsson & M. Tesfahuney (eds.). Oxon: Routledge, pp. 61-78.

Markham, T. and Rodgers, S. (2017) ‘Theorizing media phenomenologically.‘ In: Conditions of mediation: Phenomenological perspectives on media. Markham, Tim and Rodgers, S (eds.)  New York: Peter Lang, pp. 1-18.

Rodgers, S. (2010) ‘Digitizing and visualizing: Old media, new media and the pursuit of emerging urban publics’ In Rethinking the public: innovations in research, theory and politics. N. Mahony, J. Newman and C. Barnett (eds). Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 43-59.

Rodgers, S. (2009) ‘Urban growth machine’ In The international encyclopedia of human geography. R. Kitchin and N. Thrift (eds). Oxford: Elsevier, Volume 12: 40-45.

Edited Journal Issues

Rodgers, S. and Moore, S. (eds) (2018). ‘Platform urbanism: A roundtable’ Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. 3(4).

Morgan Parmett, H. and Rodgers, S. (2018) ‘Re-locating media production‘ International Journal of Cultural Studies. 21(1).

Rodgers, S. (ed) (2016). ‘The urban as emergent key concept for media theory’ Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. 2(5).

Rodgers, S., C. Barnett and A. Cochrane (eds) (2014). Symposium issue on ‘Where is urban politics?’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 38(5).

Rodgers, S., C. Barnett and A. Cochrane (eds) (2009). Debate on ‘Re-engaging the intersections of media, politics and cities’ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 33(1).

Small-Gauge Scholarship (Selected)

• Where we care: Local attention in a platformized pandemic
• Platform urbanism: An introduction
• The horizons of platformed urban politics
• Doubly displacing media and the city
• Theorizing media after the urban revolution
• Ethnographic vignettes from ICA 2016
• Small-gauge as remediating and metamedial
• Small-gauge as environmental and ordinary
• The media-urban nexus: histories, stakes, possibilities
• In the name of pedagogy: temporary reductions of media technology and culture
• Geography’s digital turn?
• Social media as academic environments: how we think, do and say
• Media and cities in the Global South: questioning the questions
• What is research amongst technologies?
• Does ‘neoliberalism’ help us understand media?
• Media production sites and urban public space: or, stumbling into The Apprentice
• Manovich: visualization, pattern and the objects of the humanities
• Hayles: technogenesis, distributed cognition and hyperattention
• Recalling the OU (Open University), through already-hazy hindsight
• Remembering Roger Silverstone

Book Reviews

Review forum: Ash, J. (2017) Phase media: Space, time and the politics of smart objects. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. In: The AAG Review of Books 7(3): 192-202

Review of: Christophers, B. (2009) Envisioning media power: on capital and the geographies of television. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. In: Environment and Planning A 42(1): 2547-2548

Review of: Blum, A. (2003) The imaginative structure of the city. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press. In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30(1): 240-241

Reports

Tarantino, M., Lokot, T., Moore, S., Rodgers, S., Tosoni, S. and Hedjazi, A.B. (2019) ‘Urban data cultures in post-socialist countries: Challenges for evidence-based policy towards housing sustainability‘. University of Geneva, Switzerland. (Research Report for UNECE)

Media

Rodgers, S. (2020) Interview with Alexander Gutzmer on ‘Media houses’ for Baumeister: Das Architektur-Magazin: German Print Version | English Preprint Version