MediaSpace : place, scale, and culture in a media age / edited by Nick Couldry and Anna McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Couldry, Nick

McCarthy, Anna, 1967-

Series:

Comedia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Space and time--Social aspects.

Space and time.

Civilization, Modern--21st century.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

"MediaSpace" explores the importance of ideas of space and place to understanding the ways in which we experience the media in our everyday lives. Essays from leading international scholars address the kinds of space created by media and the effects that spatial arrangements have on media forms. Case studies focus on a wide variety of subjects and locales, from in-flight entertainment to mobile media such as personal stereos and mobile phones, and from the electronic spaces of the Internet to the shopping mall. "MediaSpace" contains both theoretical overviews and a geographically diverse selection of current research. Of primary interest within media and cultural studies, it will also prove necessary reading for geographers, sociologists and anthropologists concerned with issues of space and media.

Contents:

pt. 1. Media theory / spatial theory ; 1. The doubling of place / Shaun Moores ; 2. Kinetic screens / Lisa Parks ; 3. Neither poison or cure / Clive Barnett ; 4. Attractions of television / Mimi White

pt. 2. Work, leisure, and the spaces in between ; 5. The marketable neighbourhood / Arlene Dávila ; 6. Media, bodies, and spaces of ethnography / Susan Ossman ; 7. Spaces of television / Göran Bolin ; 8. Dot.com urbanism / Andrew Ross ; 9. Industrial geography lessons / John Caldwell

pt. 3. New media spaces ; 10. The webcam subculture and the digital enclosure / Mark Andrejevic ; 11. Crossing the media(n) / James Hay and Jeremy Packer ; 12. Something spatial in the air / Nitin Govil ; 13. An ontology of everyday control / Fiona Allon ; 14. 'To each their own bubble' / Michael Bull.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415291747

0415291755

OCLC:

52838291