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Struggles in the cityEpisode 17: Media, sport and placeIn this episode, I talk to Helen Morgan Parmett. She works as Associate Professor at The University of Vermont in the United States. Drawing on her long-time work and book “Stadium City” published this Fall 2025, we look into the interplay between media, sport, and place. In the podcast, Helen addresses the mediatization of sport giving concrete examples of how that plays out in the U.S. We also talk about the imagined stadium-goer and how that has changed over the years, as well as the connections that can be drawn to the notion of white space. Helen’s recom...
2025-09-0431 min
Publicly SitedThe Mediated City 08 (2025 Re-release): Networked LocationIt’s an entirely banal and simple act for many contemporary Londoners: to type, or even dictate, an address or location into a service such as Google Maps, or Citymapper, and be presented with a series of route options: walking, cycling, public transport, driving. And not just these options, but their predicted duration, based on for instance real-time traffic data, and also, perhaps, whether the intended destination will still be open at the predicted time of arrival. User of such services do not tend to reflect on how they are being delivered this information, and when do, they more li...
2025-02-2532 min
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastMondays Flashback: The Digital City with Germaine HalegouaThis week we’re jumping back in time to visit Talking Headways episode 285 featuring Professor Germaine Halegoua discussing her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place. It’s one of my favorite book discussions ever and I thought it would be a nice episode to revisit. In this episode, Germaine talks about how people use digital media to relate to cities whether that’s images on Instagram or through Google Maps. We also talk about how data exchange can be exploitative and how internet infrastructure is used as a commodity rather than a utility...
2024-08-0659 minPublicly SitedThe Mediated City 08 (Re-release): Networked LocationIt’s an entirely banal and simple act for many contemporary Londoners: to type, or even dictate, an address or location into a service such as Google Maps, or Citymapper, and be presented with a series of route options: walking, cycling, public transport, driving. And not just these options, but their predicted duration, based on for instance real-time traffic data, and also, perhaps, whether the intended destination will still be open at the predicted time of arrival. User of such services do not tend to reflect on how they are being delivered this information, and when do, they more li...
2023-02-2832 minPublicly SitedThe Mediated City 08: Networked LocationIt’s an entirely banal and simple act for many contemporary Londoners: to type, or even dictate, an address or location into a service such as Google Maps, or Citymapper, and be presented with a series of route options: walking, cycling, public transport, driving. And not just these options, but their predicted duration, based on for instance real-time traffic data, and also, perhaps, whether the intended destination will still be open at the predicted time of arrival. User of such services do not tend to reflect on how they are being delivered this information, and when do, they more li...
2022-03-0732 min
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog PodcastEpisode 285: The Digital CityThis week we’re joined by Germaine Halegoua, an Associate Professor of film and media studies at the University of Kansas to talk about her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place. She talks about how people use digital media to relate to cities whether that’s images on Instagram or through Google Maps. We also talk about how data exchange can be exploitative and how internet infrastructure is used as a commodity rather than a utility and how that affects equity. And finally there's a discussion about smart cities and how they try to creat...
2020-05-2159 min
Journey Through This Game-Changing Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Smart Cities by Germaine HalegouaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405084to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Smart Cities
Author: Germaine Halegoua
Narrator: Wendy Tremont King
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Release date: March 17, 2020
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable...
2020-03-175h 34
Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceSmart Cities by Germaine HalegouaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Smart Cities Author: Germaine Halegoua Narrator: Wendy Tremont King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 17, 2020 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized...
2020-03-1703 minDiscover Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceSmart Cities by Germaine HalegouaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405084to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Smart Cities
Author: Germaine Halegoua
Narrator: Wendy Tremont King
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Release date: March 17, 2020
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable...
2020-03-175h 34
Grab A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Soul-Stirring.Smart Cities by Germaine HalegouaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/194to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Smart Cities
Author: Germaine Halegoua
Narrator: Wendy Tremont King
Format: mp3
Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
Release date: 03-17-20
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 12 ratings
Genres: Architecture
Publisher's Summary:
Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are...
2020-03-175h 33
New Books in GeographyGermaine R. Halegoua, "The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place" (NYU Press, 2019)In her new book, The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place (NYU Press, 2019), Germaine R. Halegoua rethinks everyday interactions that humans have with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world. Dr. Halegoua draws from five case studies from global and mid-sized cities to illustrate the concept of “re-placing." In this book, Dr. Halegoua shows have different populations employ urban broadband networks, social and locative media platforms, digital navigation, smart cities, and creative placemaking initiatives to create built environment into places with deep meaning and emotional attachments. She argues that people use...
2020-02-1251 min
New Books in TechnologyGermaine R. Halegoua, "The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place" (NYU Press, 2019)In her new book, The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place (NYU Press, 2019), Germaine R. Halegoua rethinks everyday interactions that humans have with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world. Dr. Halegoua draws from five case studies from global and mid-sized cities to illustrate the concept of “re-placing." In this book, Dr. Halegoua shows have different populations employ urban broadband networks, social and locative media platforms, digital navigation, smart cities, and creative placemaking initiatives to create built environment into places with deep meaning and emotional attachments. She argues that people use...
2020-02-1252 min
New Books in Urban StudiesGermaine R. Halegoua, "The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place" (NYU Press, 2019)In her new book, The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place (NYU Press, 2019), Germaine R. Halegoua rethinks everyday interactions that humans have with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world. Dr. Halegoua draws from five case studies from global and mid-sized cities to illustrate the concept of “re-placing." In this book, Dr. Halegoua shows have different populations employ urban broadband networks, social and locative media platforms, digital navigation, smart cities, and creative placemaking initiatives to create built environment into places with deep meaning and emotional attachments. She argues that people use...
2020-02-1251 min
From the Square: An NYU Press PodcastGermaine R. Halegoua, "The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place" (NYU Press, 2019)In her new book, The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place (NYU Press, 2019), Germaine R. Halegoua rethinks everyday interactions that humans have with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world. Dr. Halegoua draws from five case studies from global and mid-sized cities to illustrate the concept of “re-placing." In this book, Dr. Halegoua shows have different populations employ urban broadband networks, social and locative media platforms, digital navigation, smart cities, and creative placemaking initiatives to create built environment into places with deep meaning and emotional attachments. She argues that people use...
2020-02-1254 min