TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bourdon,Jerome
AU  - Bourdon,Jérôme
AU  - Braman,Sandra
AU  - Ciecko,Anne
AU  - Everett,Anna
AU  - Foner,Lenny
AU  - Jones,Steve
AU  - Larkin,Brian
AU  - Miller,Toby
AU  - Ohmer,Susan
AU  - Oren,Tasha G.
AU  - Petro,Patrice
AU  - Sands,Peter
AU  - Sreberny,Annabelle
AU  - Taylor,Timothy
AU  - Taylor,Timothy D.
TI  - Global Currents: Media and Technology Now 
T2  - New Directions in International Studies
SN  - 9780813534794
U1  - 302.23 22
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; I. Institutions: Nationalism, Transnationalism, Globalization --; 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 --; @henryparkesmotel.com --; 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 --; II. Circulation: Cultures, Strategies, Appropriations --; 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813542492
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813542492
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813542492/original
ER  -