Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space
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...
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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.
Introduction: Here, There, and Elsewhere Chris Berry Soyoung Kim Lynn Spigel viiPart I The Reconfigured Home1 Domesticating Dislocation in a World of "New" Technology David Morley 32 Avatars and the Visual Culture of Reproduction on the Web Lisa Nakamura 173 The Talking Weasel of Doarlish Cashen Jeffrey Sconce 334 Designing the Smart House: Posthuman Domesticity and Conspicuous Production Lynn Spigel 55Part II Electronic Publics5 New Documentary in China: Public Space, Public Television Chris Berry 956 The Undecidable and the Irreversible: Satellite Television in the Algerian Public Arena Ratiba Hadj-Moussa 1177 The Voice of Jacob: Radio's Role in Reviving a Nation Tamar liebes-Plesner 1378 Violence, Publicity, and Secularism: Hindu-Muslim Riots in Gujarat Arvind Rajagopal 1579 Turkish Satellite Television: Toward the Demystification of Elsewhere Asu Aksoy Kevin Robins 171Part III The Mediated City10 The Elsewhere of the London Underground Charlotte Brunsdon 19711 The Image at Ground Zero: Mediating the Memory of Terrorism Marita Sturken 22512 Tokyo: Between Global Flux and Neonationalism Shunya Yoshimi 245Contributors 261Index 265
