Global currents : media and technology now /
edited by Tasha G. Oren and Patrice Petro.
- vi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- New directions in international studies .
- New directions in international studies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / 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 / 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. Tasha G. Oren and Patrice Petro -- Lenny Foner -- Toby Miller -- Peter Sands -- Steve Jones -- Jerome Bourdon -- Susan Ohmer -- Sandra Braman -- Brian Larkin -- Annabelle Sreberny -- Anne Ciecko -- Anna Everett -- Timothy D. Taylor --
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Mass media and technology Communication, International Globalization.