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How human meanings, practices and interactions produce and are produced by urban space is the focus of this timely and exciting addition to the study of urban communication. This book explores key intersections of discourse, materiality, technology, mobility, identity and inequality in acts of communication across urban and urbanizing contexts.

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How human meanings, practices and interactions produce and are produced by urban space is the focus of this timely and exciting addition to the study of urban communication.

Challenging notions of the ´urban´ as physically, economically or technologically determined, this book explores key intersections of discourse, materiality, technology, mobility, identity and inequality in acts of communication across urban and urbanizing contexts. From leisure and media consumption among Chinese migrant workers in a Guangdong village to the diverse networks and communication infrastructures of global cities like London and Los Angeles, this collection combines a range of perspectives to ask fundamental questions about the significance and status of cities in times of intensified mediation and connectivity.

With case studies from Italy, Britain, Ireland, Russia, the United States and China, this international collection demonstrates that both empirical and critical knowledge on the relationship between communication and urban life has become vital across the humanities and social sciences.

Communicating the City will be essential reading for all scholars and students who desire to gain an in-depth understanding of the multiple roles that media and communication have in lived experiences of the city.

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List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Susan Drucker/Gary Gumpert: Foreword - Giorgia Aiello/Matteo Tarantino: Introduction: Communicating the city between the centre and the margins - Part One: Imagining The City - Carole O´Reilly: Journalism and the changing act of observation: Writing about cities in the British press 1880-1940 - Davide Lampugnani: Questioning the smart city: From techno-entrepreneurial to intelligence-enabling - Greg Dickinson/Brian L. Ott: Spatial materialities: Coproducing imaged/inhabited spaces - Joan Faber McAlister: Vedic Victorians on American Gothic ´s landscape: Relocating "foreign" architecture and restoring the spatial figure of juxtaposition - Part Two: Making The City - Matteo Tarantino/Chung-Tai Cheng: Rural spaces, urban textures: Media, leisure, and identity in a Southern China industrial village - Federica Timeto: Practices of location-sharing and the performances of locative identity among Italian users of Foursquare - Paolo Cardullo: Urban change and the mesh: An ethnography of Deptford´s Open Wireless Network - Matthew Matsaganis: The communication infrastructure that supports life in the city and enables urban community change - Part Three: Sharing The City - Gill Harold: Interrogating phonocentrism in the "hearing" city: Exploring Deaf experiences - Jonathan Corpus Ong/Tony Zhiyang Lin: Plague in the city: Digital media as shaming apparatus toward mainland Chinese "locusts" in Hong Kong - Aleksandra Nenko/Anisya Khokhlova/Nikita Basov: Communication and knowledge creation in urban spaces: The tactics of artistic collectives in Barcelona, Berlin, and St. Petersburg - Wallis Motta/Myria Georgiou: Community through multiple connectivities: Mapping communication assets in multicultural London - Kate Oakley/Giorgia Aiello: Afterword: Communication and the city - Notes on Contributors - Index.

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