Electronic Elsewheres by Chris Berry

Electronic Elsewheres by Chris Berry

Media 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. Tracing how media reconfigure the boundaries between public and private-and global and local-to create "electronic elsewheres," the essays investigate such spaces and identities as the avatars that women are creating on Web sites, analyze the role of satellite television in transforming Algerian neighborhoods, inquire into the roles of radio and television in Israel and India, and take a skeptical look at the purported novelty of the "new media home." Contributors: Asu Aksoy, Istanbul Bilgi U; Charlotte Brunsdon, U of Warwick; Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, York U (Toronto); Tamar Liebes-Plesner, Hebrew U; David Morley, Goldsmiths, U of London; Lisa Nakamura, U of Illinois; Arvind Rajagopal, New York U; Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths, U of London; Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern U; Marita Sturken, New York U; and Shunya Yoshimi, U of Tokyo.

Chris Berry is professor of film and television studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Soyoung Kim is professor of cinema studies at the Korean National University of Arts.

Lynn Spigel is professor and Frances E. Willard Chair of Screen Cultures at Northwestern University.

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ISBN 13	9780816647378
ISBN 10	0816647372
Title	Electronic Elsewheres
Author	Chris Berry
Series	Public Worlds
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press
Year published	2010-01-08
Number of pages	312
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