Erika Polson

Bio

Erika Polson is a professor in the department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. Her critical cultural research on digital media, mobility, and placemaking is published in leading media and communication journals, as well as the (2016) book, Privileged Mobilities: Geo-Social Media, Professional Migration, and a New Global Middle Class. Recent projects include co-editing a Special Issue on “Digital placemaking” in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (2021) and articles in Special Issues in Mobile Media & Communication on “Homelessness and mobile media” (2023), in Space & Culture on “Gentrification and the right to the geomedia city” (2024), and in the International Communication Gazette on “Urban Places, Technologies and People: The Importance of Urban Communication for Communication and Media Studies” (2025). She is currently working on a book about how mobile and social media have changed travel and impacted places.