Electronic Elsewheres : Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space.
Title:
Electronic Elsewheres : Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space.
Author:
Berry, Chris.
ISBN:
9780816670468
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (310 pages)
Series:
Public Worlds
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: Here, There, and Elsewhere -- Part I. The Reconfigured Home -- 1 Domesticating Dislocation in a World of "New" Technology -- 2 Avatars and the Visual Culture of Reproduction on the Web -- 3 The Talking Weasel of Doarlish Cashen -- 4 Designing the Smart House: Posthuman Domesticity and Conspicuous Production -- Part II. Electronic Publics -- 5 New Documentary in China: Public Space, Public Television -- 6 The Undecidable and the Irreversible: Satellite Television in the Algerian Public Arena -- 7 The Voice of Jacob: Radio's Role in Reviving a Nation -- 8 Violence, Publicity, and Secularism: Hindu-Muslim Riots in Gujarat -- 9 Turkish Satellite Television: Toward the Demystification of Elsewhere -- Part III. The Mediated City -- 10 The Elsewhere of the London Underground -- 11 The Image at Ground Zero: Mediating the Memory of Terrorism -- 12 Tokyo: Between Global Flux and Neonationalism -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Media do not simply portray places that already exist; they actually produce them. In exploring how world populations experience "place" through media technologies, the essays included here examine how media construct the meanings of home, community, work, nation, and citizenship. Tracing how media reconfigure the boundaries between public and private-and global and local-to create "electronic elsewheres," the essays investigate such spaces and identities as the avatars that women are creating on Web sites, analyze the role of satellite television in transforming Algerian neighborhoods, inquire into the roles of radio and television in Israel and India, and take a skeptical look at the purported novelty of the "new media home." Contributors: Asu Aksoy, Istanbul Bilgi U; Charlotte Brunsdon, U of Warwick; Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, York U (Toronto); Tamar Liebes-Plesnar, Hebrew U; David Morley, Goldsmiths, U of London; Lisa Nakamura, U of Illinois; Arvind Rajgopal, New York U; Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths, U of London; Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern U; Marita Sturken, New York U; and Shunya Yoshimi, U of Tokyo.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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