Deep Mapping the Media City
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Deep Mapping the Media City
By (Author) Shannon Mattern
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
11th March 2015
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
307.7609
Physical Properties
Paperback
70
Width 127mm, Height 178mm, Spine 25mm
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 Bio
Shannon Mattern is associate professor in the School of MediaStudies at The New School in New York. She is author of The New Downtown Library (Minnesota, 2007). You can find her at wordsinspace.net.
