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Deep Mapping the Media City

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Deep Mapping the Media City
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Shannon Mattern
SeriesForerunners: Ideas First
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:70
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 127
ISBN/Barcode 9780816698516
ClassificationsDewey:307.7609
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 28 b&w illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 11 March 2015
Publication Country United States

Description

Going beyond current scholarship on the "media city" and the "smart city," Shannon Mattern argues that our global cities have been mediated and intelligent for millennia. Deep Mapping the Media City advocates for urban media archaeology, a multisensory approach to investigating the material history of networked cities. Mattern explores the material assemblages and infrastructures that have shaped the media city by taking archaeology literally-using techniques like excavation and mapping to discover the modern city's roots in time. Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Author Biography

Shannon Mattern is associate professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York. She is author of The New Downtown Library (Minnesota, 2007). You can find her at wordsinspace.net.