Media, Modernity, Technology: Geographies of the New
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From best-selling author David Morley, this book presents a set of interlinked essays which discuss and examine some of the key debates in the fields of media and cultural studies.Spanning the last decade, this fascinating and readable book is based on interdisciplinary work on the interface of media and cultural studies, cultural geography and anthropology. Clearly structured in five thematic sections, the book surveys the potential contribution of art-based discourses to the field and offers critical perspectives on the emergence of the ‘new media’ of our age.Including discussion on the status and future of media and cultural studies as disciplines, the significance of technology and new media, and raising questions about the place of the magical in the newly emerging forms of techno-modernity in which we live today, this is a media student must-read.
List of illustrations viiAcknowledgements ixIntroduction 1Disciplinary dilemmas: canons and orthodoxies 13So-called cultural studies: dead ends and reinvented wheels 15Cultural studies and media studies: contexts, boundaries and politics Johannes von Moltke 39Methodological matters: interdisciplinary approaches 67Methodological problems and research practices: opening up the 'black box' Claudio Flores 69Visions of the real: the ethnographic arts 87The geography of modernity and the orientation of the future 133EurAm, modernity, reason and alterity: after the West? 135Beyond global abstraction: regional theory and the spatialisation of history 157Domesticity, mediation and the technologies of'newness' 197Public issues and intimate histories: mediation, domestication and dislocation 199Rhetorics of the technological sublime: the paradoxes of technical rationality 235Techno-anthropology: icons, totems and fetishes 273Television: not so much a visual medium, more a visible object 275Magical technologies: the new, the shiny and the symbolic 293Coda 311Marvels and wonders: modernity, tradition and technology 313Index 332
