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Urban Screens

Thursday 9 February 2006

Meditations on the promise and challenges of digital presence in public space.

This month, First Monday journal is focussed on urban screens: the impact of digital presence in public spaces. Much Northern-European cultural studies name-checking, but also a teaser for the Urban Screens 2006 conference (Berlin, October 5-6), which “will elaborate on the discussion and develop the broad spectrum of possible formats and usage of this emerging new media infrastructure.”

And some nice soundbites, for anyone engaged with outdoor:

[...] in taking TV from point-of-sale installations and the captive audiences of station platforms, airports, queues and waiting rooms into ‘public space’ means entering more complex urban environments. It means facing the decline of urban community spaces which, since the 1950s, has often been blamed on television.

Interestingly, next year’s Urban Screens conference is

currently under preparation in collaboration with BBC Public Space Broadcasting. While Urban Screens 2006 will have ‘brick & mortar’ accents, Urban Screens 2007 will have a distinct focus on the potential of journalistic content: issues surrounding the production and display of media content for Urban Screens, as well as adaptive reuse of ‘old’ content for new media will be explored in detail.

Is there any emergent media that the BBC isn’t exploring?

Posted by Darrell Berry | Tags: bbc, media, outdoor

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