This workshop brought together speakers from multiple countries and institutions to discuss the different facets that constitute the changes within the communicative city during this period of uncertainty, unevenness and insecurity. The workshop was spread across 3 days that were open to the public. Click through to explore the themes and access the working papers and video presentations.<\/p>\n
The abstracts of all the presentations can be found here: CCRN Workshop Abstracts (Edited)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\tDay 1: Platforms & Infrastructure<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t In the first day, presenters discussed how Covid-19 transformed the relationship between big tech platforms and cities given their close commercial, logistic, and infrastructural partnerships. Food delivery platforms, virtual volunteer organizing and research collaborations became the object of study to observe the nuances of intimacy between the functioning of the city and its digital embeddedness. Presenters included Prof Jack Linchuan Qiu, Dr Angela Ke Li & Mr Stephan Hawranick Serra, and was chaired by Prof Audrey Yue, Director of NUS Cultural Research Centre.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> for presenter’s bios and their working papers.<\/p>\n\t\t\tDay 2: Politics & Pan-demos<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t The global pandemic brought with it severe political unrest from the calls for democracy in Hong Kong to the retaliation against racialised police brutality in the US. Does this phenomenon open the way to a new politics, from a global pan-demic to a global pan-demos? This was discussed by Prof Nikos Papastergiadis, Dr Jasmine Pfefferkorn, Dr Curry Chandler and Dr Alex Lambert, as chaired by Prof Peter Haratonik, the Executive Coordinator of Urban Communication Foundation.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to access their video presentations and working papers.<\/p>\n\t\t\tDay 3: Sense & Embodiment<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t The existence and persistence of the pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we interact with each other and with the urban community at large. This panel questioned whether the pandemic could help elucidate a new mode of embodiment in the city and a new way of feeling its textures, movements & rhythms. Chaired by Prof Scott McQuire, Professor of Media & Communications at the University of Melbourne, the discussion included Prof Gary Gumpert, Prof Susan J. Drucker, Mr Chris Parkinson and Ms Isabel Fangyi Lu.<\/p>\n