Global Currents : : Media and Technology Now /

Global Currents : : Media and Technology Now / / ed. by Tasha G. Oren, Patrice Petro.

Rhetoric about media technology tends to fall into two extreme categories: unequivocal celebration or blanket condemnation. This is particularly true in debate over the clash of values when first world media infiltrate third world audiences. Bringing together the best new work on contemporary media...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bourdon, Jerome,
Bourdon, Jérôme,
Braman, Sandra,
Ciecko, Anne,
Everett, Anna,
Foner, Lenny,
Jones, Steve,
Larkin, Brian,
Miller, Toby,
Ohmer, Susan,
Oren, Tasha G.,
Sands, Peter,
Sreberny, Annabelle,
Taylor, Timothy D.,
Taylor, Timothy,
HerausgeberIn:
Oren, Tasha G.,
Petro, Patrice,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:New Directions in International Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. Institutions: Nationalism, Transnationalism, Globalization
  • Crypto Regs — Fear, Greed, and the Destruction of the Digital Commons
  • What We Should Do and What We Should Forget in Media Studies — Or, My TV A–Z
  • Hybridity
  • @henryparkesmotel.com
  • Is Television a Global Medium? — A Historical View
  • The Land Grab for Bandwidth — Digital Conversion in an Era of Consolidation
  • Posthuman Law — Information Policy and the Machinic World
  • II. Circulation: Cultures, Strategies, Appropriations
  • Piracy, Infrastructure, and the Rise of a Nigerian Video Industry
  • Unsuitable Coverage — The Media, the Veil, and Regimes of Representation
  • Muscle, Market Value, Telegenesis, Cyberpresence — The New Asian Movie Star in the Global Economy of Masculine Images
  • The African Diaspora Speaks in Digital Tongues
  • Some Versions of Difference — Discourses of Hybridity in Transnational Musics
  • Alternate Arrangement for Global Currents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Index

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