Electronic elsewheres : media, technology, and the experience of social space

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Electronic elsewheres : media, technology, and the experience of social space

Chris Berry, Soyoung Kim, and Lynn Spigel, editors

(Public worlds / Dilip Gaonkar and Benjamin Lee, series editors, v. 17)

University of Minnesota Press, c2010

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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.

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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 Contributors Index

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