I have recently finished a paper with Michael Hoyler of Loughborough University on Global Media Cities in Transnational Media networks, which has been posted on the GaWC website.
The paper considers an alternative dimension of world city network formation, driven by transnational media corporations rather than advanced producer services. Through an empirical analysis of the office networks of media corporations, the paper measures the integration of global media cities into the world city network. An interlocking network model is employed to determine the connectedness of cities within media networks, and a multivariate analysis used to identify six media fields articulated through particular cities. The results of the analysis demonstrate that a number of key cities are anchoring transnational media networks most intensively within the Pacific Rim region.
