Deep mapping the media city
By: Shannon Mattern
Series: Forerunners: Ideas first; Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781452958491
Subjects: City and town life; Urbanization; Archaeology; Methodology; Cities and towns; Information services
Description: "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."
Notes: "Portions of this book were published in a different form in "Ear to the wire: listening to historic urban infrastructures," Amodern 2 (Fall 2013), http://amodern.net/article/ear-to-the-wire/, and in "Deep time of media infrastructure," in Signal traffic: critical studies of media infrastructures, edited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski".

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The deep time of urban mediation; title: Infrastructural entanglements; title: Multisensory methods; title: Deep mapping the media city.