Media and the City
Subtitle: Cosmopolitanism and Difference
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780745648552
Subjects: Mass media, social aspects; Cities and towns; Internationalism
Description: With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural and political trajectories of urban societies are increasingly urgent. Media and the City explores the global city as the site where these questions become most prominent. As a space of intense communication and difference, the global city forces us to think about the challenges of living in close proximity to each other. Do we really see, hear and understand our neighbours? This engaging book examines the contradictory realities of cosmopolitanization as these emerge in four interfaces: co.