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Media and the City: Cosmopolitanism and Difference (PGMC - Polity Global Media and Communication series) Paperback – 8 Nov 2013

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  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Polity Press; 1 edition (8 Nov. 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0745648568
  • ISBN-13: 978-0745648569
  • Product Dimensions: 15.1 x 0.4 x 23.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"This elaborate and elegantly written volume connects ideas of cosmopolitanism, urbanity and the media. Crucially, this volume not only provides a compelling summary of existing debates but also offers a novel and exciting approach to these issues. The book will provide an important reference point for anyone seeking to understand some of the central debates of the twenty–first century."
Nick Stevenson, University of Nottingham

"An impressive contribution to understanding the cultural dynamism of London as a global, cosmopolitan city and London’s position among global cities more generally. Georgiou delves expertly beneath official hype to the street level where diverse creative worlds are shaped by different media, especially in the divisions and cultural encounters of the East End."
John Eade, University of Roehampton

"Cities are competitive projects of creativity and power. More than half of the human species live in them, and more want to. Myria Georgiou′s fascinating new vision of the mediated and cosmopolitan city explores humanity’s biggest project yet by investigating its role in consumption, identity, community and civic action."
John Hartley, Curtin University

About the Author

Myria Georgiou is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. She has also worked as a journalist for BBC World Service, Greek press, and the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation

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4.0 out of 5 starsAn inviting read on the politics of urban cultures of communication
By Koen L. on 4 Dec. 2013
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As the majority of the world's population now lives in cities, more knowledge is needed on how people of diverse backgrounds (can learn to) live together. The question arises what role media production and consumptions plays in this complex proces. This monograph is an urgent intervention mapping the cosmopolitan dynamics of mediated urbanism. Media and communication studies are brought into dialogue with urban/cultural geography, which is urgent, as both fields have largely developed parallel to one another, with little cross-fertilization. The author works on 4 case studies (or "interfaces"), to argue that at the intersections of mediation and urbanity marginalized people can stake out their presence through "urban cultures of communication". Beyond top down accounts of neo-liberal and liberatory cosmopolitanism, the four cases: consumption, identity, community and action chart the vernacular cosmopolitanism of (urban/mediated) presence of marginalized urban dwellers. The book takes London as a starting point (but, as the author emphasizes, the examples resonate with dynamics in other global cities in the Global North and emerging economies). The focus on consumption juxtaposes the dynamics of shopping in East-London by comparing top down corporate cosmopolitanism in the biggest mall in Europe, Westfield: Stratford City part of the 2012 London Olympics project, with the bottom-up bohemianism in Shoreditch. The chapter on identity explores urban graffiti and non-mainstream rap, while the chapter on community innovatively compares middle-class Arab media users with elite, cosmopolitan nomads. The study of action explores chaotic (partly digitized) urban manifestations by comparing the global #Occupy movement with the 2011 London riots.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant: original and powerfully argued text that reads as a novel from cover to cover! 19 Aug. 2014
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This is a brilliant book! It grasps the most interesting and difficult social and media transformations and the dialectics of change, as lived in "the everyday" i.e. the struggles, contradictions, fragmentations as well as globalizing-totalizing processes of urban life. Beautifully painted by Georgiou (p. 66), “the city is a canvas” for city dwellers who constantly “mark their identities” in their “struggles to find a place in the city and a place in the world”. What is remarkable about the book is that it brilliantly managed to cuts through the gloss and jargon that standard media-studies texts thrive on, in order to provide an original and powerfully argued text of the highest scientific quality, but at the same time it flows and reads as a novel from cover to cover! That is an achievement - I look forward to reading her next book!
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read that goes beyond academia 5 Mar. 2014
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London, Los Angeles, Shanghai, are all big cities. When I started the book I thought about all of them completely differently! This is an informative read about the unique interactions of media and the city, from the ground up.
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