Dear colleagues, With this email we happily announce the freely available open access publication of the Observatorio (OBS*) Special Issue ´Media City: Spectacular, Ordinary and Contested Spaces´ (Edited by Koen Leurs, Jani Vuolteenaho & Johanna Sumiala) See http://obs.obercom.pt Articles Digital urbanisms: Exploring the spectacular, ordinary and contested facets of the media city<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/970> Jani Vuolteenaho, Koen Leurs, Johanna Sumiala PDF<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/970/746> #banksyinstockholm - The Politics of Street Art and Spatiality<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/835> Tindra Thor PDF<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/835/756> Not Only a Workplace. Reshaping Creative Work and Urban Space<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/973> Tanja Sihvonen, Boukje Cnossen PDF<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/973/748> Mobile Media Architecture: Between Infrastructure, Interface, and Intervention<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/974> Nanna Verhoeff PDF<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/974/749> A smart and ubiquitous urban future? Contrasting large-scale agendas and street-level dreams<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/833> Johanna Ylipulli PDF<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/833/750> Of Time and the City: Urban Rephotography and the Memory of War<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/975> László Munteán PDF<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/975/757> Marginal Scenes and the Changing Face of the Urban Public Library: The Vancouver Downtown Eastside’s Carnegie<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/976> Paulina Mickiewicz PDF<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/976/752> Online-offline strategies of urban movements against vacancies. The crowdsourcing platform Leerstandsmelder.de as a collective and critical mapping tool<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/888> Gregor Arnold PDF<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/888/753> Studying youth in the streets of the media city – Field notes on a relational perspective<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/977> Leena Suurpää, Johanna Sumiala, Titus Hjelm, Minttu Tikka PDF<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/977/754> The politics and praxis of media-city research: a duo interview with Myria Georgiou and Scott McQuire<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/978> Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiou, Scott McQuire, Jani Vuolteenaho, Johanna Sumiala PDF<http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/978/755> ISSN: 1646-5954 All the very best, Koen Leurs also on behalf of Jani Vuoltenaaho and Johanna Sumiala Assistant professor Gender and Postcolonial Studies | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University | Muntstraat 2A 3512 EV NL | room 0.05 | T. + 31 (0)30 253 7844 | www.koenleurs.net Latest publications: Leurs, K. Digital Passages. Migrant Youth 2.0. Diaspora, Gender & Youth Cultural Intersections. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (open access download available here: https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=559550)