Patrick Brodie
Assistant professor in Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin and co-editor of Media Rurality, with research on data centers and rural media industries.
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May 3, 2026 • 1h 17min
Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)
Burç Köstem, assistant professor studying media and technology, walks the outskirts of Istanbul and traces mega-projects and construction waste. Megan Wiessner, postdoctoral researcher on digital tech and democracy, maps green data capitalism and cases like Microsoft FarmBeats. Patrick Brodie, information scholar, recounts Marconi stations and data centers in rural landscapes. Darin Barney, infrastructure and political economy scholar, ties rural mediation to colonial and capitalist circuits.
May 3, 2026 • 1h 17min
Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)
Burç Köstem, scholar of peripheries and infrastructure in Turkey; Megan Wiessner, researcher on green data capitalism and ruralization; Patrick Brodie, researcher on data centers and rural media industries; Darin Barney, researcher of rural media and political economy. They explore infrastructure as a lens on rural mediation. Topics include green data capitalism, data centers and energy, colonial infrastructures, mega-projects, and infrastructural path dependency.
May 3, 2026 • 1h 17min
Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)
Featuring Patrick Brodie, Irish scholar of rural media and infrastructure; Darin Barney, Canadian communication theorist of rural mediation; Burç Köstem, researcher on Istanbul peripheries and infrastructural politics; and Megan Wiessner, researcher on digital tech, democracy, and green data capitalism. They explore data centers and Marconi radio, green data capitalism and FarmBeats, mega-projects around Istanbul, and how infrastructure ruralizes landscapes.
