Media Rurality.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brodie, Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media in economic development.

Communication in rural development.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.

Summary:

From the boglands of Ireland to the homemade media systems of rural Tanzania, the contributors to Media Rurality show how rural territories are highly mediated, technologized spaces profoundly enmeshed with global capitalism and colonialism.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Media Rurality / Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney

Part I. Extractive Mediations

1. Green Data Capitalism and Its Rural Extractions / Megan Wiesner, Anne Pasek, Nicole Starosielski, and Hunter Vaughan

2. Scenes of Extraction: Mediating Rurality, Wilderness, and Hinterland in Dutch and Chinese Film / Emily NG and Esther Peeren

3. Imperial Wireless: Energetic Mediation at Marconi's Connemara Station / Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie

4. Mediated Extraction: The Production of Dark Ruralities in the Atlantic World / Assatu Wisseh

Part II. Practicing Rurality

5. Mediating the Periphery: Metabolism and Technicity on the Outskirts of Istanbul / Burç Köstem

6. Domestic Solar Media in Rural Tanzania: Toward an Energy-Media Matrix / Lisa Parks

7. Hong Kong in Siliguri/Dhulabari: Exploring Media Objects and Border Towns / Ishita Tiwary

8. The Preservation of Embodied Masculinity in Rural Tech-Altered Workplaces / Jenna Burrell

Part III. Political Ruralities

9. Gas Can Imaginaries: On the Politics of Combustion, Anti-Urban Resentment, and Playing Indian at the 2022 Freedom Convoy / Jordan B. Kinder

10. Where the Market Dares Not Tread: Mapping Rural Broadband in the United States / Christopher Ali

11. The Virtual Fire / Cindy Kaiying Lin

12. Embankment Economies, Soaking Ecologies, and the Conservation Zone of Kaziranga /Ayesha Vemuri

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4780-6200-2

9781478062004

OCLC:

1578793601