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We explore the media city through a narrative that frames our own personal urban experience through and with it. Flâneurs of sorts, we meander through the media city, sometimes in our backyard, sometimes on our mobile devices, and sometimes on our mobile devices in our backyard examining the backyard itself through an informational lens. We live in a so-called shrinking rust-belt city – Syracuse New York – and our experience of this city is quite different than that which was imagined – or addressed – through its height-of-industrial-society build-out. Without the informational infrastructure of the media city, as flâneurs we lack appropriate urban distractions in the material body of the “city” that is defined through legislation and historical perception. We turn to the media city for our own urban livelihood, and present our flânerie itself here as a critical musing on the conference theme.

While we offer provocations toward a definition of a media city and an argument for a critical thinking of the media city in city planning and governance today, what we offer here really is a stub. Defined as “an article deemed too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject,” our narrative stub is folded into other fragments of narrative already in the media city simply to “contain enough information for other editors [that is, media citizens] to expand upon it.”