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PublisherRutgers University Press

ISBN-100813534801

ISBN-139780813534800

eBay Product ID (ePID)30256748

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameGlobal Currents : Media and Technology Now

SubjectCommunication Studies, Media Studies, Globalization, Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Publication Year2004

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science

AuthorTasha Oren

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2004-000299

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsThe editors have assembled a tru provocative collection of essays. This is cutting-edge scholarship at its best.-Timothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal302.23

SynopsisRhetoric 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberP96.T42G58 2004