On 14 July 2020, 5pm, I will be chairing a webinar on Digital Extremism and the City with Bharath Ganesh and Robert Topinka, who will discuss the digitalised tropes, affects and infrastructures of the far right in, through and in relation to the city. This is part of a new ‘Urban Intersections’ series that I am organising with Mara … Continue Reading
Just before the UK went into it lockdown in late March 2020, I did an interview with Alexander Gutzmer on ‘media houses’ for the German architecture magazine Baumeister. We discussed what is at stake in studies of media companies’ headquarters, offices and facilities, with reference to my research into the Toronto Star‘s various facilities around … Continue Reading
Susan Moore and I have begun advertising a CFP for the 2020 AAG conference in Denver, USA. The paper session we are proposing focuses on the theme of ‘Building Platform Urbanism’: the ways in which digital platform companies, or agents anticipating their interests, are increasingly involved in designing and constructing particular built forms and new … Continue Reading
In recent weeks I’ve shared, tweeted and retweeted ever so frequently about the ‘Platform Urbanism’ roundtable that Susan Moore and I edited in Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. So much so, that I thought a blog post would have been redundant. Yet with the dust now more or less settled, I thought I’d … Continue Reading
It’s hard to believe that AAG CFP season is starting already. Susan Moore and I have begun advertising a CFP for the 2018 AAG conference in New Orleans, USA. The set of paper and panel sessions will focus on the theme of ‘Platform Urbanism’, co-sponsored by the AAG’s Digital Geographies Specialty Group, Media and Communication … Continue Reading
Tomorrow I depart London for my first ever visit to South America; specifically, to Cartagena, Colombia, for the 2017 IAMCR conference. I have the honour of being the respondent to Wallis Motta and Myria Georgiou’s ‘Deep mapping communication infrastructure in super diverse London’ which has won the 2016 IAMCR Urban Communication Grant. The paper is … Continue Reading