Rethinking media coverage : vertical mediation and the War on terror / / by Lisa Parks

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910796863603321
• Autore: Parks Lisa
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2018
• ISBN: 0-203-87964-3; 1-135-83743-0; 1-135-83740-6; 1-135-83742-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 pages)
• Disciplina: 070.1/95
• Soggetti: Television broadcasting of news - Technological innovations; Telecommunication - Social aspects; Television broadcasting of news; Mass media and war; Artificial satellites in telecommunication
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Airing: US Television’s Vertical Turns -- chapter 2 Searching: Screening Practices at US Airport Security Checkpoints -- chapter 3 Monitoring: Geospatial Imagery and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- chapter 4 Targeting: Mediating US Drone Wars.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the concept of vertical mediation to explore how audiovisual cultures enact and infer power relations far beyond the screen. Focusing on TV news, airport checkpoints, satellite imagery, and drone media, Parks demonstrates how "coverage" makes vertical space intelligible to global publics in new ways and powerfully reveals what is at stake in controlling it.