Problem Statement: The proliferation of digital infrastructures has transformed urban experience from one of material co-presence (the classic Metropolis) into a multi-layered, media-mediated experience. While the Metropolis was grounded in sensory density and industrial rhythms, the Mediapolis—by intertwining physical and digital spaces—highlights the role of media in directing perception, attention, and the movement of the urban body. This study addresses how these transformations alter bodily experience and what new phenomenological modes of the body emerge within the media city.

Objective and Methodology: Utilizing a qualitative-interpretive approach and drawing upon urban studies, media studies, and the philosophy of the body (somaesthetics), this research aims to explain the evolution of bodily experience during this transition.

Findings: The transition to the Mediapolis shifts the body from a subject engaged with “environmental sensory pressure” to one involved in “attentional fragmentation.” This manifests in four phenomenological modes: the “Agentic Body” (hybrid physical-digital agency), the “Represented Body” (linked to image circulation), the “Guided Body” (subject to algorithmic navigation), and the “Observed Body” (presence converted into traceable data).

Conclusion: In the Mediapolis, the body finds meaning through interaction with media infrastructures, rather than mere physical density. The quality of “urban aesthetics” has shifted from the “intensity of sensory encounter” to the “mode of linking layers of perception.” Although media and algorithms transform the body into an instrument for data production, the body remains the central node of experience and meaning-making, tasked with balancing physical and digital flows.