NOW ONLINE: Our Spring 2024_#Open issue features a special section guest edited by the NECS Open Scholarship Committee, feature articles as well as a film festival review section on virtual reality, exhibition and book reviews and a data paper ✨ necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/spri…

Presenting on the material construction of ‘better’ green urban futures through architectural models today at NECS – the #OpenAccess article is coming out next week in the Amsterdam Museum journal special issue on #Gentrification✨

Out now: "Model/City: Architectural Models and the Aesthetics of Playfulness" in the Amsterdam Museum Journal issue on #Gentrification explores playfulness between practices of sustainability and processes of gentrification. Available #OpenAccess here: assets.amsterdammuseum.nl/downloads/AMJo…

Collectively admiring Joke at her celebratory lecture for 20 years as Professor of Inclusion and the Creative Industries at @InhAmsterdam - all about mapping for change ✨

In "Introducing open montage: Material performativity in urban media configurations in space", Mel Jordan and Giorgia Rizzioli look into the media configurations resulting from the entangled relations between art, cinema and urban space. necsus-ejms.org/introducing-op…

Call for #BookReviewers: For our 2025 issues, we are interested in publishing a double review of "Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema" (Rowman & Littlefield) and "Filming Death" (Edinburgh University Press) 💀 If you are interested, send us a message! All details here: necsus-ejms.org/submit/review-… ,

In "Urban/image: Conceptualizing Amsterdam as urban environment in virtual renderings" Linda Kopitz traces the entanglement of virtual and real environments in imagining green futures. #OA Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

For the latest issue of NECSUS_Journal, Judith Keilbach and I got to interview the brilliant Lisa Parks about the conceptual, methodological and practical implications of researching ‘media backends’ in connection to the issue’s focus on hashtag #Open. necsus-ejms.org/opening-up-clo…

CALL FOR PAPERS: NECSUS is now inviting submissions for the upcoming Spring 2025_#Features issue on a variety of topics related to media studies, broadly construed. Abstracts (300 words) are due 15 September. #CfP here: necsus-ejms.org/necsus-call-fo…

The city is a playground. But is it really? For a Mediapolis Journal issue on #PlayableCities, Carolyn Birdsall, Alex Gekker 🐘 @[email protected] and I are looking for contributions that explore play as a method, concept and practice in the urban 👀 #Cfp here, Abstracts due 15.10.: t.ly/MC3OY

The special Media and Communication issue on #GeomediaFutures – with my article on care and connectivity in "The Line" – is now available in open access ✨cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommun…

Call for contributions: Mediapolis dossier on PLAYABLE CITIES, edited by Linda Kopitz, @carobirdsalland Alex Gekker 🐘 @[email protected]. Abstracts due 15th October. Full CFP here: t.ly/MC3OY

Reading urban policies🤝watching vampire television New article out in Revenant Journal about the construction of Istanbul as a supernatural city in Netflix's "Yaşamayanlar" [Immortals]. And yes, the series delivers exactly what the poster promises. revenantjournal.com/contents/immor…

Our latest issue is out! Supernatural Cities: Placing urban identities, Memory and Cultural Crises - a wealth of fascinating research & reading to enjoy, edited by Dr Rachael Ironside & Dr Aly Edwards-Boon Congratulations to all involved. Start exploring at the link... revenantjournal.com

One more week to submit an abstract (300 words) for our Mediapolis Journal special issue on #PlayableCities – coming out in Autumn 2025!

Just in time for #Godzilla's birthday on Nov 3, my article on the threat of the (in)visible in the MonsterVerse is now available in #OpenAccess as part of the "Godzilla at 70" special issue of Humanities edited by Steve Rawle. doi.org/10.3390/h13060…

I'm pleased to announce the publication of 'Godzilla at 70: The Giant Monster's Legacy in Global Popular Culture' Humanities an open access special issue exploring the impact of the king of the monsters into its eighth decade. #Kaiju #Godzilla70 mdpi.com/journal/humani…

In March, Sam Hind will give a masterclass as part of our #ASCA Cities Seminar on 'playable cities' to explore how different kinds of collaborative play become integral to the (competitive) development practices of computer scientists. Sign up here: nica-institute.com/event-playing-…

As part of the #ASCA Cities Seminar, Paul O'Connor will give a masterclass on "Rolling Ethnography: Methodology and Urban Research" in April at UvA Amsterdam – you can already sign up here: nica-institute.com/event-rolling-…

If you are interested in (not so) utopian urbanism, I was invited to the latest episode of the Media and Communication "Let's talk about Media and Communication" video series to discuss care and connectivity in 'The Line' 👀 The corresponding article is available in #OpenAccess.