Global currents : media and technology now / edited by Tasha G. Oren and Patrice Petro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oren, Tasha G., editor.

Petro, Patrice, 1957- editor.

Series:

New directions in international studies.

New Directions in International Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and technology.

Communication, International.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 that affect the cultures into which they are introduced—it is just as likely that the receiving culture will change the media. Topics covered in the volume include copyright law and surveillance technology, cyber activism in the African Diaspora, transnational monopolies and local television industries, the marketing and consumption of “global music,” “click politics” and the war on Afghanistan, the techno-politics of distance education, artificial intelligence and global legal institutions, and traveling and “squatting” in digital space. Balanced between major theoretical positions and original field research, the selections address the political and cultural meanings that surround and configure new technologies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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

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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

Piracy, Infrastructure, and the Rise of a Nigerian Video Industry

Unsuitable 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-86474-6

0-8135-4249-9

OCLC:

804665128