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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822984603321

Titolo

Electronic elsewheres : media, technology, and the experience of social space / / Chris Berry, Soyoung Kim, and Lynn Spigel, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8166-7046-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Public worlds ; ; v. 17

Altri autori (Persone)

BerryChris <1959->

KimSo-yong <1961->

SpigelLynn

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media and culture

Mass media - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Some chapters were previously published.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : here, there, and elsewhere / Chris Berry, Soyoung Kim, and Lynn Spigel -- Domesticating dislocation in a world of "new" technology / David Morley -- Avatars and the visual culture of reproduction on the Web / Lisa Nakamura -- The talking weasel of Doarlish Cashen / Jeffrey Sconce -- Designing the smart house : posthuman domesticity and conspicuous production / Lynn Spigel -- New documentary in China : Public space, public television / Chris Berry -- The undecidable and the irreversible : satellite television in the Algerian public arena / Ratiba Hadj-Moussa -- The voice of Jacob : radio's role in reviving a nation / Tamar Liebes-Plesner -- Violence, publicity, and secularism : Hindu-Muslim riots in Gujarat / Arvind Rajagopal -- Turkish satellite television : toward the demystification of elsewhere / Asu Aksoy and Kevin Robins -- The elsewhere of the London Underground / Charlotte Brunsdon -- The image of ground zero : mediating the memory of terrorism / Marita Sturken -- Tokyo : between global flux and neonationalism / Shunya Yoshimi.

Sommario/riassunto

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, inquir