Mediaspace: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age

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Author: Nick Couldry

ISBN-10: 0415291747

ISBN-13: 9780415291743

Category: Media - General & Miscellaneous

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MediaSpace explores the importance of ideas of space and place to understanding the ways in which we experience the media in our everyday lives.

List of illustrationsNotes on contributorsIntroduction: Orientations: mapping MediaSpace1Pt. IMedia theory/spatial theory191The doubling of place: electronic media, time-space arrangements and social relationships212Kinetic screens: epistemologies of movement at the interface373Neither poison nor cure: space, scale and public life in media theory584The attractions of television: reconsidering liveness75Pt. IIWork, leisure and the spaces in-between935The marketable neighborhood: commercial Latinidad in New York's East Harlem956Media, bodies and spaces of ethnography: beauty salons in Casablanca, Cairo and Paris1147Spaces of television: the structuring of consumers in a Swedish shopping mall1268Dot.com urbanism1459Industrial geography lessons: socio-professional rituals and the borderlands of production culture163Pt. IIINew media spaces19110The webcam subculture and the digital enclosure19311Crossing the media(-n): auto-mobility, the transported self and technologies of freedom20912Something spatial in the air: in-flight entertainment and the topographies of modern air travel23313An ontology of everyday control: space, media flows and 'smart' living in the absolute present25314'To each their own bubble': mobile spaces of sound in the city275Index294