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Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space

By Chris Berry , Soyoung Kim , Lynn Spigel

Book information

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0816647364, 9780816647361, 0816647372, 9780816647378
LCC
P94.6 .E43 2010
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2416993 bytes)
Series
Public Worlds 17
Pages
310\310
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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-Plesner, Hebrew U; David Morley, Goldsmiths, U of London; Lisa Nakamura, U of Illinois; Arvind Rajagopal, New York U; Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths, U of London; Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern U; Marita Sturken, New York U; and Shunya Yoshimi, U of Tokyo.

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