{"product_id":"place-power-media-9781433155505","title":"Place Power Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlace, Power, Media: Mediated Responses to Globalization\u003c\/em\u003e is a compelling, interdisciplinary exploration of how media practices and communication rituals are connected to larger economic, social, and political processes in a globalizing world. Through a rich variety of media texts, authors examine how daily, mundane, and interpersonal processes help shape our' place in the world, a placement that is integrally connected to social relations at the global level. Denoting a sense of geography as well as demarcating diverse social positionings, place is understood as the result of historical and contemporary discourses occurring on a range of scales and within different cultural, aesthetic, and political contexts. The authors argue that the construction, restoration, configuration, and representation of place is an important project at multiple levels; what meanings are derived from it, what meanings are infused, who the key players are, what power struggles are inherentthese is\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures – Divya McMillin\/Joost de Bruin\/Jo Smith: Introduction: Place, Power, Media – Section One: Place Making in the Globalizing City – Linda Jean Kenix: Authenticity and Participation as a Radicalized Tourist Place in Post-earthquake Christchurch – Divya McMillin: Citizen Media and Civic Engagement in Globalizing  – Carol-Mei Barker: Shanghai’s Migrant Bodies and Global Spaces: Zhao Dayong’s \u003ci\u003eStreet Lif\u003c\/i\u003ee (2006) – Section Two: Indigenous Place Making through Media Production and Performance – Jo Smith: Pluralizing Notions of Place through Māori Food TV – Danica Sterud Miller\/Puyallup Nation: Anishinaabe Storytelling and the Federal Narrative in Louise Erdrich’s \u003cem\u003eTracks\u003c\/em\u003e – Oli Wilson: Revisiting Place and Identity in Indigenous Popular Music: \u003ci\u003eLokal \u003c\/i\u003eStylistic Frameworks in Papua New Guinea – Kimbra L. Smith: ‘Not Alone in the World’: Global Audiences-as-Actors in the Decolonization Process of a Coastal Ecuadorian Indigenous Community – Section Three: Challenging Representations of Place through Media Criticism – Joanne Clarke Dillman: Encountering Nigeria through Mediated Close Encounters: Amina Lawal, Isioma Daniel, and the Miss WorldPageant of 2002 – Athena Elafros: It’s the ‘Great White North’: Nationalism, Identity and Place in Canadian Hip Hop – Joost de Bruin: A New Zealand Television Soap in Fiji: Out of Time, But Firmly in Place – Kristin Shamas: Media Invisibility and a South Lebanese Village – Contributor Biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039635669335,"sku":"9781433155505","price":35.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433155505.jpg?v=1750944331","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/place-power-media-9781433155505","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}