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Book SynopsisMedia 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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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