Urban Media Analysis

The Museum of Diasporic Media uses media as a real time method of tracking, strengthening and curating diasporic clustering and dispersal. Through mapping New York City’s ethnic neighborhood densities in relation to a news bodega near the museum site in the Lower East Side, clusterings of urban ethnic neighborhoods are evident. In mapping where the ads in these newspapers geographically direct the reader in the city, one can see that there is a re-clustering of ethnicities that diversifies the neighborhoods. A closer analysis of the structure and time duration of different media types shows that people’s systematic relationship to the media functions on a range of scales of duration.