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Organisers' description:The MEDIA &#38; THE CITY Temporary Working Group is happy to announce the organization of its first Workshop. The Workshop will take place on FEBRUARY 10, 2012, at the CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY of MILAN, ITALY.&#160;Workshop overviewThe first TWG Workshop will feature parallel sessions and a final plenary. During the parallel sessions, members will be able to share and discuss their research. The final plenary session will discuss the organizational aspects of the Group and delineate future activities. Parallel sessions will be open to all interested scholars, while the plenary will be open only for TWG members.&#160;Selected papers (see website for full details):Giorgia Aiello - The urban built environment as global(ist) communication: Concepts, methods, critiqueClemens Apprich - Rise and fall of the city metaphor to describe digital networks in the 1990sGirogio Bacchiega - Peripheral views on MilanGiovanni Caruso, Riccardo Fassone, Gabriele Ferri and Mauro Salvador - Check-in everywhere: Places, people, narrations, gamesMariana Ciancia and Walter Mattana - Imagine Milan: An audiovisual design thinking approach to the image of the cityAndrea Cuman - Hardcopy vs digital mobile travel guidebooks: A preliminary comparison on mediated spatial interactino and a case studyAmedeo Damato - Cities of blood and longing. The protagonist's architectural projection in Hollywood cinemaMiriam De Rosa - Cinematic architectures IN SITU. Notes on the participatory construction of a visual urban imageryManuela Farinosi - New media and the city in an "out of ordinary" context: Exploring the motivations behind the citizen journalism production after a natural disasterGabriele Ferri and Patrick Coppock - Serious urban games. From play in the city to play for the cityKatalin Feher - Digital urban identitiesCezary Hunkiewicz - City as a medium: The space and street art activitiesAngelo Imperiale - Avoiding urban marginality: How to build social sustainability?Sami Kolamo - Branding urban spaces through football media spectaclesPeter Maroldt - New media and the Asian cityGonca Noyan - Old bridge as a symbol of multiculturalism: Global discourse and local narratives in MostarChristian Oggolder - Losing centrality - urban spaces and the network societySeja Ridell - The cybercity as a medium. Public living and agency in the digitally shaped urban spaceGabriella Sandstig - There is a light that never goes out - cultivation effects on the freedom of movement in urban and suburban public placesBarbara Scifo - The sense of place from mobile communicatino to locative mediaKatia Segers, Joost Vaesen and Rudi Janssens - Opportunities and dangers of Brussels media for its Dutch-speaking minority. Research on audience use, expectations and appreciationSatomi Sugyiama - The muted mobile in TokyoMoira Sweeney - Space and the geographical imagination on the Dublin DocklandsRobert Szwed - Researching media representations of the city. Preliminary remarks on how to measure representations of Lublin, PolandMatteo Tarantino and Simone Tosoni - Convergent media and social production of space: An approach through controversiesFederica Timeto - In the middle of urban space: The case of critical cityFerenc Zsélyi - Concrete dreamworksFerenc Zsélyi, István András and Mónika Rajcsányi-Molnár - Global staging in a postindustrial city: Dunaújváros, the media platform of intercultural networkingWeiming Ye - Phoenix man and woman: Discussions on urban and rural gap in Chinese BBS forums