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Publicly Sited
by Scott Rodgers
A podcast channel addressing the intersections of media, politics and space from Scott Rodgers, Reader in Media and Geography at Birkbeck, University of London.
Episodes
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The Mediated City 10 (2025 New Release): Sentient Cities
Software and networked devices are highly pervasive in the city, perhaps more than we tend to realise, and their consequences as urban media are becoming more apparent. The relatively sudden arrival of new, easy-to-use tools and streamlined interfaces sold under the broad banner of ‘AI’ may may…
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The Mediated City 09 (2025 Re-release): Platform Urbanism
If you have been fortunate enough to travel to new cities, in countries other than your own, it is more than likely your travels in and through this new city was mediated. Not just in the myriad ways we’ve been discussing so far in this series, but increasingly through a specific kind of media...
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The Mediated City 08 (2025 Re-release): Networked Location
It’s an entirely banal and simple act for many contemporary Londoners: to type, or even dictate, an address or location into a service such as Google Maps, or Citymapper, and be presented with a series of route options: walking, cycling, public transport, driving. And not just these options, but...
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The Mediated City 07 (2025 Re-release): Urban Brandscapes
As you move about myriad city spaces, you will probably recognise the regularity and intensity with which you are being exposed to a whole plethora of brands. Perhaps most noticeable will be all manner of advertising display. Ads plastered across roadside billboards or building walls, integrated...
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The Mediated City 06 (2025 Re-release): Street Arts
Arriving into a large city by train, metro or subway, it's very likely that the concrete or brick sidings you see out the window are covered in graffiti. As you make your way off the train, into the streets you might see all manner of stylised inscriptions and names, written in black permanent...
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The Mediated City 05 (2025 Re-release): Media Architectures
If you live in a city which is changing rapidly, construction sites might begin to seem like processes of erasing, copying and pasting, remixing or remediating the city. And it also may be that the new buildings being put in place have more and more forms of media or communication, such as...
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The Mediated City 04 (2025 Re-release): Urban Soundtracks
There is an old adage about cinema: that it may seem a principally visual medium; but in fact, its soundtrack and sound design are just as important. So it is with our more general encounter with the city. While it may seem that we are surrounded and even overwhelmed by an assemblage of visual...
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The Mediated City 03 (2025 Re-release): Suburban Screens
One way or another, you most likely watch television in some form. You might use a device explicitly called a ‘television’, sited in a room in which televisions tend to be, such as a lounge or family room. Or perhaps you use a remediated version of television: via a device such as a smartphone, a...
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The Mediated City 02 (2025 Re-release): Print Urbanism
If you’ve ridden public transport over a number of years, you might think printed material is declining. You may have once been surrounded by people immersed in newspapers and books, but more and more people seem to be cradling smart phones, tablets or laptops. Playing video games, watching...
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The Mediated City 01 (2025 Re-release): Surfaces, Depths, Fragments, Publics
When you move through the city, you move through mediation. This is because what we call media and what we call the city (or the urban) are in a nexus: they are intimately connected. On the one hand, the practices, the rhythms and the motilities of urban living compel certain uses, exposures and...
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Publicly Sited Update: The Mediated City re-release with new Sentient Cities episode
In this short update, I'm announcing the re-release of The Mediated City podcast series, coming out today. And, on top of that, the new release of this series' missing its final, 10th episode on Sentient Cities. In that final episode I hope will we a timely contribution to all the talk, concern,...
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Media, Technology & Culture 10 (3rd Edition): Extractive Technologies
As we come to the end of this series, we seem to be circling around an important contemporary theme: the emergent scepticism about digital platforms. This scepticism is not only about the murky decision-making power of digital platforms’ technical systems, discussed in our last episode. It’s also...
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Media, Technology & Culture 09 (3rd Edition): Predictive Technologies
There is now widespread awareness of, suspicion about, and even opposition to the notion that computers seem to think. Or if not think, at least can learn things and then make decisions without our intervention, or indeed without us even knowing about it. Mysterious entities with names like...
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Media, Technology & Culture 08 (3rd Edition): Participatory Technologies
There seems to be widespread consensus that contemporary media is much more participatory. For some time, this was a point of celebration: anyone could, for example, set up a YouTube account, and with relatively low-cost or even free devices and software, generate and share their experiences or...
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Media, Technology & Culture 07 (3rd Edition): Embodied Technologies
Media technologies today seem to be everywhere. Assisting us in – or invading – each and every corner of our daily existence. We have already discussed how this ubiquity is embedded into a huge range of physical infrastructures; environments where media technologies surround us. And yet, we also...
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Media, Technology & Culture 06 (3rd Edition): Infrastructural Technologies
We have already discussed the importance of paying attention to how media technologies are powerful when they are ordinary and relatively invisible. When they work like ‘appliances’ in daily life. This was the key message of McLuhan’s ‘medium theory’ as well as theories of media domestication....
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Media, Technology & Culture 05 (3rd Edition): Computational Technologies
Most people know very well that social and cultural transformations are complex. And yet, we often seem prepared to think of individual media as bringing change. We believe that there was a situation before this or that media, and then another situation after. Sometimes there are worries about…
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Media, Technology & Culture 04 (3rd Edition): Live Technologies
It is often said that media technologies provide us with a window on the world, beyond our own experience. A window not only connecting us to distant or past worlds, beyond our immediate reach, but also to worlds we feel can join into, and share simultaneously. One term for describing how media...
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Media, Technology & Culture 03 (3rd Edition): Domesticated Technologies
By now, you will have noticed we are not spending much if any time trying to understand media technologies in isolation. Instead, we have been and will keep putting media technologies into the settings on which they depend as well as help shape. One prominent academic concept for scholars seeking...
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Media, Technology and Culture 02 (3rd Edition): Located Technologies
A conventional narrative in many historical accounts about the arrival of new media technologies is that media technologies have oftentimes made possible forms of communication in which physical co-presence is less and less necessary. Early media technologies like print allowed for unprecedented...
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Media, Technology and Culture 01 (3rd Edition): Cultural Technologies
Technological talk is everywhere nowadays. All manner of novel developments, good or ill, are associated with the supposed impact of technology. But when we invoke the term ‘technology’, whether in relation to media or in general, just what do we mean anyway? Do technologies drive human history?…
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Publicly Sited Update: New 3rd Edition of the Media, Technology and Culture podcast
In this short update, I'm announcing the new third edition of the Media, Technology and Culture podcast series coming out tomorrow. This is not a sequel of all new topics, but it is a complete re-recording with new elements and tweaks to go along with the new academic term. It also includes two...
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The Mediated City 09 (Re-release): Platform Urbanism
If you have been fortunate enough to travel to new cities, in countries other than your own, it is more than likely your travels in and through this new city was mediated. Not just in the myriad ways we’ve been discussing so far in this series, but increasingly through a specific kind of media...
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The Mediated City 08 (Re-release): Networked Location
It’s an entirely banal and simple act for many contemporary Londoners: to type, or even dictate, an address or location into a service such as Google Maps, or Citymapper, and be presented with a series of route options: walking, cycling, public transport, driving. And not just these options, but...
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The Mediated City 07: Urban Brandscapes
As you move about myriad city spaces, you will probably recognise the regularity and intensity with which you are being exposed to a whole plethora of brands. Perhaps most noticeable will be all manner of advertising display. Ads plastered across roadside billboards or building walls, integrated...
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The Mediated City 06: Street Arts
Arriving into a large city by train, metro or subway, it's very likely that the concrete or brick sidings you see out the window are covered in graffiti. As you make your way off the train, into the streets you might see all manner of stylised inscriptions and names, written in black permanent...
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The Mediated City 05 (Re-release): Media Architectures
If you live in a city which is changing rapidly, construction sites might begin to seem like processes of erasing, copying and pasting, remixing or remediating the city. And it also may be that the new buildings being put in place have more and more forms of media or communication, such as...
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The Mediated City 04 (Re-release): Urban Soundtracks
There is an old adage about cinema: that it may seem a principally visual medium; but in fact, its soundtrack and sound design are just as important. So it is with our more general encounter with the city. While it may seem that we are surrounded and even overwhelmed by an assemblage of visual...
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The Mediated City 03 (Re-release): Suburban Screens
One way or another, you most likely watch television in some form. You might use a device explicitly called a ‘television’, sited in a room in which televisions tend to be, such as a lounge or family room. Or perhaps you use a remediated version of television: via a device such as a smartphone, a...
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The Mediated City 02 (Re-release): Print Urbanism
If you’ve ridden public transport over a number of years, you might think printed material is declining. You may have once been surrounded by people immersed in newspapers and books, but more and more people seem to be cradling smart phones, tablets or laptops. Playing video games, watching...
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The Mediated City 01 (Re-release): Surfaces, Depths, Fragments, Publics
When you move through the city, you move through mediation. This is because what we call media and what we call the city (or the urban) are in a nexus: they are intimately connected. On the one hand, the practices, the rhythms and the motilities of urban living compel certain uses, exposures and...
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The Mediated City 09: Platform Urbanism
If you have been fortunate enough to travel to new cities, in countries other than your own, it is more than likely your travels in and through this new city was mediated. Not just in the myriad ways we’ve been discussing so far in this series, but increasingly through a specific kind of media...
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The Mediated City 08: Networked Location
It’s an entirely banal and simple act for many contemporary Londoners: to type, or even dictate, an address or location into a service such as Google Maps, or Citymapper, and be presented with a series of route options: walking, cycling, public transport, driving. And not just these options, but...
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The Mediated City: Observing the Digital Picket
This is a short message to listeners of The Mediated City podcast series. UK listeners, and certainly my students, will know that the University and College Union (UCU) is currently taking industrial action. This action centres on two disputes. The first is focused on pensions: a typical member…
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The Mediated City 05: Media Architectures
If you live in a city which is changing rapidly, construction sites might begin to seem like processes of erasing, copying and pasting, remixing or remediating the city. And it also may be that the new buildings being put in place have more and more forms of media or communication, such as...
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The Mediated City 04: Urban Soundtracks
There is an old adage about cinema: that it may seem a principally visual medium; but in fact, its soundtrack and sound design are just as important. So it is with our more general encounter with the city. While it may seem that we are surrounded and even overwhelmed by an assemblage of visual...
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The Mediated City 03: Suburban Screens
One way or another, you most likely watch television in some form. You might use a device explicitly called a ‘television’, sited in a room in which televisions tend to be, such as a lounge or family room. Or perhaps you use a remediated version of television: via a device such as a smartphone, a...
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The Mediated City 02: Print Urbanism
If you’ve ridden public transport over a number of years, you might think printed material is declining. You may have once been surrounded by people immersed in newspapers and books, but more and more people seem to be cradling smart phones, tablets or laptops. Playing video games, watching...
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The Mediated City 01: Surfaces, Depths, Fragments, Publics
When you move through the city, you move through mediation. This is because what we call media and what we call the city (or the urban) are in a nexus: they are intimately connected. On the one hand, the practices, the rhythms and the motilities of urban living compel certain uses, exposures and...
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Media, Technology and Culture 10 (2nd Edition): Extractive Technologies
Policymakers, politicians, activists, businesspeople and even ordinary people are more and more sceptical of digital platforms like Facebook (or shall we say, Meta). This scepticism is not just about the murky decision-making power of algorithms. It’s also that there is increasing awareness about...
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Media, Technology and Culture 09 (2nd Edition): Algorithmic Technologies
There is now widespread awareness of, suspicion about, and even opposition to 'algorithms'. As widespread as the multiplicity of situations and domains in which these mysterious entities seem to be making more and more decisions: around welfare payments; university places; travel routes; and…
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Media, Technology and Culture 08 (2nd Edition): Participatory Technologies
One of the more celebrated aspects of contemporary media is that it seems so much more participatory. In principle, at least, anyone can for example establish a Twitter or a YouTube account, and share their experiences or views with minimal censorious intervention. Some have explained this...
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Media, Technology & Culture 07 (2nd Edition): Embodied Technologies
Media technologies today seem to be everywhere. Assisting us in – or invading – each and every corner of our daily existence. We have already discussed how this ubiquity is embedded into a huge range of physical infrastructures; environments where media technologies surround us. And yet, we also...
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Media, Technology & Culture 06 (2nd Edition): Infrastructural Technologies
We have already discussed the importance of paying attention to how media technologies are powerful when they are ordinary and relatively invisible. When they work like ‘appliances’ in daily life. This was the key message of McLuhan’s ‘medium theory’ as well as theories of media domestication....
-
Media, Technology & Culture 05 (2nd Edition): Computational Technologies
Most people know very well that social and cultural transformations are complex. And yet, we often seem prepared to think of individual media as bringing change. We believe that there was a situation before this or that media, and then another situation after. Sometimes there are worries about…
more -
Media, Technology & Culture 04 (2nd Edition): Live Technologies
It is often said that media technologies provide us with a ‘window on the world’ beyond our own experience. A window not only connecting us to a distant world, beyond our immediate reach, but also to one which we can join into, and share simultaneously. One term for describing how media afford…
more -
Media, Technology & Culture 03 (2nd Edition): Domesticated Technologies
By now, you will have noticed we are not spending much if any time trying to understand media technologies in isolation. Instead, we have been and will keep putting media technologies into the settings on which they depend as well as help shape. One prominent academic concept for scholars seeking...
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Media, Technology & Culture 02 (2nd Edition): Communication Technologies
The terms media and communications are often offered as a couplet, or even used interchangeably. But communication is a broad idea with a very long history, and the arrival of media technologies are usually seen to make possible a special form of communication, in which physical co-presence was...
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Media, Technology & Culture 01 (2nd Edition): Cultural Technologies
Technological talk is everywhere nowadays. All manner of novel developments, good or ill, are associated with the supposed impact of technology. But when we invoke the term ‘technology’, whether in relation to media or in general, just what do we mean anyway? Do technologies drive human history?…
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Publicly Sited Update: New Podcast on The Mediated City; plus Media, Technology and Culture 2nd Edition
In this short update, I'm announcing a new series, The Mediated City, out in January 2022. Also, there's a second edition of the Media, Technology and Culture podcast series coming out tomorrow. This is not a sequel of all new topics, nor a complete remake of the first series. It's a more modest...
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A podcast channel addressing the intersections of media, politics and space from Scott Rodgers, Reader in Media and Geography at Birkbeck, University of London.
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