Prof Myria Georgiou

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Media and Communications (Communication, Culture and Global Cities) (LSE and NYU). This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes.

Students must be registered for the  MSc in Media and Communications (Media, Culture and Global Cities).

This course examines the relationship between media, culture, and cities. Drawing on media and communications, urban theory, cultural studies and urban geography, students will explore how cities emerge as sites of media production, consumption, and circulation — and how urban life is shaped by digital platforms, networked infrastructures, and creative industries. From London and New York to Lagos and Shanghai, the course traces the uneven geographies of global media cultures, attending to questions of power, inequality, and everyday urban experience. Students will engage with academic literature, case studies and creative activities in developing critical frameworks for analysing media and city life.

10 hours of seminars and 10 hours of lectures in the Autumn Term.

This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn Term.

All students are expected to complete advance reading, prepare seminar presentations, and submit a 500-word outline of the summative essay. .

• Barns, S. (2020) Platform Urbanism: Negotiating Platform Ecosystems in Connected Cities. Palgrave Macmillan 
• Curtin, M. and Sanson, K. (eds.) (2016). Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor. University of California Press.
• Georgiou, M. (2013) Media and the City. Polity Press
• Georgiou, M. (2024) Being Human in Digital Cities. Polity Press
• Halegua, G. (2019) The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place. New York University Press
• Krajina, Z. and Stevenson, D. (Eds.) (2020) The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication. Routledge 
• Mattern, S. (2021) A City is inot a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences. Princeton University Press
• McQuire, S. (2008) The Media City. Sage 
• Sassen, S. (2001) The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton University Press
• Simone, A. (2004) For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities. Duke University Press

Case analysis / study (75%, 2500 words).

Online assessment (25%).