Screenshot from Makhanda Ngoku! (copyright Makhanda Black Kollective) The online interdisciplinary journal Mediapolis is looking for contributions to a dossier on Media and ‘Middling’ Cities. Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture is an interdisciplinary online journal that publishes scholarship from a range of academic fields addressing the complex and mutually constitutive relationship between media…

We, the [urban interfaces] editorial team, are thrilled to announce the recent publication of our dossier on Creative Urban Methods by Mediapolis! The dossier will be published by Mediapolis over the following days, with the introduction and first article now live on the Mediapolis website. With this collection of articles, the editorial team, consisting of…

As part of the Research Topic editorial board for the journal Frontiers in Human Dynamics, our core members prof dr. Nanna Verhoeff and dr. Michiel de Lange invite scholars to respond to their call on urban civic AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been increasingly embedded in urban infrastructure and services. From predictive policing to public…

The deadline for this call has passed and the call is now closed.    Timeline  Proposals (max. 500 words): April 12, 2023 [e-mail us if you need a bit of extra time] First versions (2000-4000 words + various multimedia): June 16, 2023  Please send contributions or enquiries to: urbaninterfaces@uu.nl     Introduction  The aim of this…

The Department of Media and Culture Studies (MCW) at the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University just released the edited volume Situating Data – Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture. This collection was initiated by dr. Karin van Es and our core member prof. dr. Nanna Verhoeff because the MCW researchers wanted to bring together the work…