Will Straw is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and a Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill as well as an Adjunct Professor with the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, Carleton University.

Media and the Night:
Media, even in the digital age, take their place within what the French geographer Luc Gwiazdzinski has called a “chrono-urbanism”, the differentiation of urban time across the 24-hour cycle. This paper will look at the ways in which different media have engaged with night-time in cities, through distinctive forms, formats, and styles of storytelling.