Electronic elsewheres : media, technology, and the experience of social space
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Bibliographic Information
Electronic elsewheres : media, technology, and the experience of social space
(Public worlds / Dilip Gaonkar and Benjamin Lee, series editors, v. 17)
University of Minnesota Press, c2010
- : pbk.
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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, inquire into the roles of radio and television in Israel and India, and take a skeptical look at the purported novelty of the "new media home."
Contributors: Asu Aksoy, Istanbul Bilgi U; Charlotte Brunsdon, U of Warwick; Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, York U (Toronto); Tamar Liebes-Plesner, Hebrew U; David Morley, Goldsmiths, U of London; Lisa Nakamura, U of Illinois; Arvind Rajagopal, New York U; Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths, U of London; Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern U; Marita Sturken, New York U; and Shunya Yoshimi, U of Tokyo.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Here There, and Elsewhere: Chris Berry, Soyoung Kim, and Lynn Spigel
I. The Reconfigured Home
1. Domesticating Dis-Location in a World of "New" Technology
David Morley
2. Avatars and the Visual Culture of Reproduction on the Web
Lisa Nakamura
3. The Talking Weasel of Doarlish Cashen
Jeffrey Sconce
4. Designing the Smart House: Posthuman Domesticity and Conspicuous Production
Lynn Spigel
II. Electronic Publics
5. New Documentary in China: Public Space, Public Television
Chris Berry
6. The Undecidable and the Irreversible: Satellite Television in the Algerian Public Arena
Ratiba Hadj-Moussa
7. The Voice of Jacob: Radio's Role in Reviving a Nation
Tamar Liebes- Plesnar
8. Violence, Publicity, and Secularism: Hindu-Muslim Riots in Gujarat
Arvind Rajgopal
9. Turkish Satellite Television: Towards the Demystification of Elsewhere
Asu Aksoy and Kevin Robins
III. The Mediated City
10. The Elsewhere of the London Underground
Charlotte Brunsdon
11. The Image at Ground Zero: Mediating the Memory of Terrorism
Marita Sturken
12. Tokyo: Between Global Flux and Neo-Nationalism
Shunya Yoshimi
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