A Dedicated Team of Urban Communication Experts

 Emeritus Professor of Communication at Queens College of the City University of New York and co-founder of Communication Landscapers, a consulting firm. His primary research focuses on the nexus of communication technology and social relationships, particularly looking at urban and suburban development, the alteration of public space, and the changing nature of community. Some of his noteworthy and early publications include: “Talking Tombstones and Other Tales of the Media Age” (1987); “Inter/Media: Interpersonal Communication in a Media Age” (1979); and “The Zoning of Social Interaction” (1991). Among his most recent articles are “Communicative Cities“ (2008); “Public Space Transformed: Digital Connectivity and Urban Spaces” (2010); The Urban Communication Infrastructure: Global Connection and Local Detachment” (2010); and “New York as Global City and Local Community: The Paradigm of Urban Communication“ (2011). 

Teresa Bergman has worked at the University of the Pacific since 2006, and is Chair and Professor in the Department of Communication. The focus of  her research is analyzing the changing representations of patriotism, nationalism, citizenship, and gender in the films and exhibits in public memory sites. Her research incorporates an interdisciplinary methodology that includes rhetoric, documentary film theory, museum studies, memory studies, and critical/cultural studies. These varied theoretical approaches help to illuminate the intersection of location, memory, and representation. She has published two books on public memory, Exhibiting Patriotism: Creating and Contesting Interpretations of American Historic Sites and The Commemoration of Women in the United States: Remembering Women in Public Space. She is currently working on her third book Future Direction of Commemoration in the U.S.

Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. He is an award-winning teacher and scholar. He has received the CSU College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching Award and the CSU Alumni Best Teacher Award. He has also received the National Communication Association’s Gerald R. Miller Dissertation Award and (with his co-authors Brian L. Ott and Eric Aoki) the NCA Golden Anniversary Monograph Award. He writes about ways the buildings and human landscapes engage viewers and users on questions values, beliefs, and action. He has published in numerous communication, cultural studies, and rhetoric journals on coffee shops, shopping malls, museums, and gentrified urban spaces. His book Suburban Dreams: Building and Imagining the Good Life was published and his co-authored book The Twitter Presidency: Donald J. Trump and the Politics of White Rage was published in 2019. He is completing a co-authored book on the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. 

Professor in the of Department of Journalism/Media Studies, School of Communication, Hofstra University. She is an attorney, editor of the Free Speech Yearbook, and Series editor of the Communication and Law series for Hampton Press. She is the author and editor of 6 books and over 85 articles and book chapters including Voices in the Street: Gender, Media and Public Space and two editions of Real Law @ Virtual Space: The Regulation of Cyberspace (1999, 2005) with Gary Gumpert. She is a recipient of the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for distinguished scholarship in freedom of expression. Her work examines the relationship between media technology and human factors, particularly as viewed from a legal perspective. She is a partner in Communication Landscapers, a consulting firm. 

Professor in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics. She has conducted cross-national comparative research across Europe and trans-urban research in American and European cities. Her book Diaspora, Identity and the Media: Diasporic Transnationalism and Mediated Spatialities(Hampton Press, 2006) draws from ethnographic research in London and New York City and the ways in which ethnic identities are constructed in multicultural neighbourhoods. Her recent book Media and the City: Cosmopolitanism and Difference (Polity, 2013) reflects on the different and competing forms of cosmopolitanism that emerge at the meeting of media and the city, especially in the context of the global city. She has also co-edited the collection Transnational Lives and the Media: Re-imagining Diasporas (with O.Bailey and R.Haridranath, 2007, Palgrave) and has edited Gender, Migration and the Media (Routledge, 2012). Her articles have been published in sociological, cultural studies, and media and communications journals.  

Emeritus Professor of Communication, Cleveland State University. His most recent research focus has been on understanding patterns representing “communication capital” of urban areas and developing methods for an audit that would allow for comparisons and dynamic model building across time. He is the author of four books, including “Urban Communication Systems: Neighborhoods and the Search for Community” (2002); “Mass Media Processes” (1994); and “Mass Media Effects” (1997), and more than one hundred journal articles, monographs, and book chapters. 

Professor, College of Communication, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He leads two research units: Urban Socio-Spatial Informatics Center (USSI) and Urban Communication Lab (UCL). Before joining the faculty at Yonsei, he was on the faculty at the University of Iowa and the University of Alabama. He earned a doctoral degree from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at University of Southern California . For the last 15 years, his research program has been built around three key areas: urban communication, new media technology, and public health/risk. He has published more than 40 academic papers in prestigious journals such as Communication Research, Human Communication Research, Communication Theory, Political Communication,  and New Media & Society 

Professor of Media and Communications, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is one of the founders of the Research Unit for Public Cultures which fosters interdisciplinary research at the nexus of digital media, contemporary art, urbanism, and social theory.His research explores the social effects of media technologies, with particular attention to their impact on the social relations of space and time, the formation of identity, and the functioning of contemporary cities. Scott is the author of Visions of Modernity: Representation, Memory, Time and Space in the Age of the Camera (1998), The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space (2008), which won the 2009 Jane Jacobs Publication Award offered by the Urban Communication Foundation, Geomedia: Networked Cities and the Future of Public Space (2016), and most recently Art Seen Under Digital Light: Photography, The Image, and the Aesthetics of Data (2018). The Media City has been translated into Chinese (2011, 2014) and Russian (2014) and Geomedia has been translated into Russian (2018) and Chinese (2019). 

 Peter Haratonik currently teaches part-time in the School of Media Studies at The New School after retiring as a professor  He was a founding member of the School of Media Studies and had served as the school’s head for many years. He also teaches part-time at The School of The Art Institute in Chicago. He has created new programs and taught at Antioch College, Hofstra University, and New York University. He has served as a Fellow at The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College and as a consultant for InHolland University, Rotterdam, and the Dublin Institute of Technology. He also serves as a consultant for Objective Focus, an education consulting firm. His most recent published research has been on the role of urban historic districts as participatory communication spaces.