Aurora Wallace
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aurora Wallace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aurora |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mapping City Crime and the New Aesthetic of Danger
This article investigates the recent proliferation of crime-mapping software applications provided by police departments in dozens of US cities. In these maps, urban space is rendered according to prevailing notions of criminality, constructing a landscape of danger that borrows from and contributes to the wider visual culture of crime. In the aesthetic rendering of illegality, place is represented with the aim of revealing information with a soc…
America's Most Unworthy
Things like that don't happen here
This article investigates the construction of place in crime reporting through bystander quotes in recent crime stories in newspapers from the north-eastern US. These quotes are part of a larger pattern of reporting that highlights environmental features of serenity and peacefulness as antidotes to crime. Against claims that crime in the media is always exaggerated, this research demonstrates how the impact of crime is moderated by declaring it u…
The Geography of Girl Watching in Postwar Montreal
The visual landscape of urban life in 1960s Montreal helped to give rise to a new practice of gazing at women, which complicates many of the taken-for-granted notions about the place of women in cities. Through the interrelated systems of visual representation—fashion, newspaper journalism, architecture, and the city itself—“girl watching” emerges as a practice intimately bound to the space of the city and the discourses of social relations embed…
Missing twins
The Geography of Girl Watching in Postwar Montreal
The visual landscape of urban life in 1960s Montreal helped to give rise to a new practice of gazing at women, which complicates many of the taken-for-granted notions about the place of women in cities. Through the interrelated systems of visual representation—fashion, newspaper journalism, architecture, and the city itself—“girl watching” emerges as a practice intimately bound to the space of the city and the discourses of social relations embed…
Things like that don't happen here
This article investigates the construction of place in crime reporting through bystander quotes in recent crime stories in newspapers from the north-eastern US. These quotes are part of a larger pattern of reporting that highlights environmental features of serenity and peacefulness as antidotes to crime. Against claims that crime in the media is always exaggerated, this research demonstrates how the impact of crime is moderated by declaring it u…
Missing twins
The Geography of Girl Watching in Postwar Montreal
The visual landscape of urban life in 1960s Montreal helped to give rise to a new practice of gazing at women, which complicates many of the taken-for-granted notions about the place of women in cities. Through the interrelated systems of visual representation—fashion, newspaper journalism, architecture, and the city itself—“girl watching” emerges as a practice intimately bound to the space of the city and the discourses of social relations embed…
Things like that don't happen here
This article investigates the construction of place in crime reporting through bystander quotes in recent crime stories in newspapers from the north-eastern US. These quotes are part of a larger pattern of reporting that highlights environmental features of serenity and peacefulness as antidotes to crime. Against claims that crime in the media is always exaggerated, this research demonstrates how the impact of crime is moderated by declaring it u…
Mapping City Crime and the New Aesthetic of Danger
This article investigates the recent proliferation of crime-mapping software applications provided by police departments in dozens of US cities. In these maps, urban space is rendered according to prevailing notions of criminality, constructing a landscape of danger that borrows from and contributes to the wider visual culture of crime. In the aesthetic rendering of illegality, place is represented with the aim of revealing information with a soc…
America's Most Unworthy
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)