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Urban Media Archaeology 2011

This is the website for the Fall 2011 "Urban Media Archaeology" graduate seminar-studio, taught by Shannon Mattern and Rory Solomon at The New School.

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Author: Alexandra

Youth Media Map: Final Process Blog

December 20, 2011 Alexandra Process Blog

Explaining my project to the class last night was a good way to practice explaining a significant body of research on Young Filmaker’s Foundation.  The

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What is the [plot] point?

December 20, 2011 Alexandra Process Blog

I’ll admit it…I’m an artifact fiend.  Gathering interviews and other primary source material for this project has been the most exciting aspect for me.  There’s

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Steve Siegel Paddles to Ellis Island (Early 1970s)

Moving Towards a Collaborative Cartography

December 7, 2011 Alexandra Process Blog

“As a consequence of the personal experience of places, we are witnessing the multiplication of our understanding of cities and landscapes – there are as

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The Steenbeck As Archaeological Tool

November 27, 2011 Alexandra Process Blog

When I first talked to Elena Rossi-Snook at the Reserve Film and Video Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at

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Youth Media Map: Diving In, Reaching Out, Putting Down

November 7, 2011 Alexandra Process Blog

When I first began this project, I was moving in the direction of a map with more utility – for use with networking between organizations

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Youth Media Map: Full Pecha Kucha

November 3, 2011 Alexandra Project Proposal

My presentation performed quite a disappearing act on me last night!  (Note to self: Powerpoint and Google Docs might process the same presentation in different

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Invincible Cities: A Photographer Builds Harlem

October 26, 2011 Alexandra Map Critique

“All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.” – Rudolf Arnheim Invincible Cities is a website including maps

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Youth Media Map

October 18, 2011 Alexandra Process Blog, Project Proposal

Mapping the Youth Media Landscape of New York City Problem Statement and Research Question: Teenagers are described as knowing how to use media technologies better

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The Walk Study Training Course

October 2, 2011 Alexandra Event, Events

                                            We all consider ourselves

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