ABSTRACT
The city and the production, distribution, exhibition, and use of different media forms have always been a question, platform, and/or problem for the humanities. Both media and the city are human productions and highlight the human tendency to seek connection, community, and meaning through material, as well as symbolic, forms. Reaching beyond modernity and media specificity, the media architectures and urban interfaces become new sites through which to explore ways of being urban as ways of seeing, knowing, and designing the city. Media urbanism as an approach also centers the processes and social and material infrastructures that drive these mutual constitutions and shifts the sites in which these entanglements and fissures are most visible or salient. Ultimately, in paying attention to the politics of media urbanism, this approach to media and the city attends to the stakes and consequences of mediated urban lives – their histories, how they are lived, and what types of lives media urbanism makes possible.
