Media and the City

Code:

103557

ECTS:

7.0

Lecturers in charge:

izv. prof. dr. sc. Zlatan Krajina

Lecturers:

izv. prof. dr. sc. Zlatan Krajina - Seminar

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1. KOMPONENTA

• Lectures 30
• Seminar 30

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

DESCRIPTION:

We have entered the urban age - most of the world population now lives in cities, which means we live in spaces managed and negotiated via the use of an array of communication technologies and practices.

In what is a rapidly growing field in media and cultural studies, the concoction "media city" cannot satisfactorily examine the dual object of its study from a single perspective (neither urban studies nor media studies alone), but requires select inputs from a range of disciplines (politics, media studies, urban studies, human geography, sociology of everyday life, sociology of media consumption, cultural studies, and architecture). Adopting this inter-disciplinary frame, in this course we examine how contemporary urban spaces manifest themselves as "mediated cities", and why it is useful to understand a wide array of media and communications in their formative urban context, such as:

* reading city spaces (plans, layouts, street furniture, monuments) as symbol and text;
* understanding urban infrastructures such as squares as media (and vice-versa);
* the rise of transnational cultures and social disparities in global cities;
* urban and suburban media cultures: newspapers, cinema, radio, television and the mobile phone;
* changing spaces and practices of urban consumption (the storefront, the mall);
* the mediation of the neighbourhood, community and diaspora;
* the centrality of politics and culture to urban regeneration;
* communicative responses to urban crises such as racism, poverty and pollution;
* the role of street art, graffiti and performance in the negotiation of the right to the city ;
* city competition and urban branding;
* outdoor advertising;
* changing forms of urban experience: indifference, encounter, flaneuring, street life;
* moving image architecture;
* the transformation of private/public as well as global/local in the contemporary city;
* smart /cyber urbanism;
* the emergence of Media City production spaces and clusters.

You will gain access to some useful intellectual tools for understanding mediated urban life and you will develop an informed and critical understanding of what it means to live in the contemporary city. You will be expected to investigate mediated urban living creatively and critically, through a range of cross-disciplinary association, combined and unconventional methodology (paying attention to historical links and materiality of communication) as well as developing your own interest in the more specific issues and phenomena.

LITERATURE:

1. University Press of New England (Hanover and London).;

2. SEMESTER

Izborni MES 1-2 - Regular studij - European Studies
Izborni GS-2 - Regular studij - University graduate programme of Journalism
Izborni GS-2 - Regular studij - University graduate programme of Political Science
Izborni predmet SPD 2. semestar - Regular studij - University graduate programme of Political Science
Izborni GS-2 - Regular studij - University undergraduate programme of Journalism
Izborni GS-2 - Regular studij - University undergraduate programme of Political Science

4. SEMESTER

Usmjerenje Istraživanje medija i komunikacije DN 4. semestar - Regular studij - University graduate programme of Journalism

izv. prof. dr. sc. Zlatan Krajina:

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