Mediating urban politics

Rodgers, Scott; Barnett, Clive and Cochrane, Allan (2009). Mediating urban politics. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(1) pp. 246–249.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00845.x

Abstract

Despite the turn to relational vocabularies in urban theory, most work on urban politics acknowledging the importance of media has tended to reproduce a centred image of 'the media' and a functionalist account of mediation. This paper suggests, by contrast, that media might be understood more phenomenologically, as those technologies embedded in the dispersed practices of urban life, and as assemblages of integrative practices (i.e. 'the media�), both of which identify and subject to action a range of issues that are identified as 'urban'. Such a focus on media-in-practices is an important shift in perspective for research hoping to bring together the shared political concerns of urban and media studies, and to take advantage of the converging spatial imaginations and reconfigured understandings of mediation emerging across both fields.

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• Item ORO ID
• 14970
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 0309-1317
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• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  Not Set	Not Set	ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council)
  Not Set	Not Set	The Open University, Department of Geography

• Keywords
• cities; communication; media; mediation; phenomenology; politics; practices; space; urban
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Geography
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
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• OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC)
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• © 2009 The Authors
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• Scott Rodgers