ISBN:
9780813542492
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (272 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Global Currents
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 practices, technologies, and policies, the essayists in Global Currents argue that neither of these extreme views accurately represents the role of media technology t
Abstract:
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 practices, technologies, and policies, the essayists in Global Currents argue that neither of these extreme views accurately represents the role of media technology today. New ways of thinking about film, television, music, and the internet demonstrate that it is not only media technologies
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 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; Part II: Circulation: Cultures, Strategies, Appropriations
Description / Table of Contents:
Piracy, Infrastructure, and the Rise of a Nigerian Video IndustryUnsuitable 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;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Permalink
