Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space (Volume 17) (Public Worlds)

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. 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. Introduction : Here, There, And Elsewhere / Chris Berry, Soyoung Kim, And Lynn Spigel -- Domesticating Dislocation In A World Of New Technology / David Morley -- Avatars And The Visual Culture Of Reproduction On The Web / Lisa Nakamura -- The Talking Weasel Of Doarlish Cashen / Jeffrey Sconce -- Designing The Smart House : Posthuman Domesticity And Conspicuous Production / Lynn Spigel -- New Documentary In China : Public Space, Public Television / Chris Berry -- The Undecidable And The Irreversible : Satellite Television In The Algerian Public Arena / Ratiba Hadj-moussa -- The Voice Of Jacob : Radio's Role In Reviving A Nation / Tamar Liebes-plesner -- Violence, Publicity, And Secularism : Hindu-muslim Riots In Gujarat / Arvind Rajagopal -- Turkish Satellite Television : Toward The Demystification Of Elsewhere / Asu Aksoy And Kevin Robins -- The Elsewhere Of The London Underground / Charlotte Brunsdon -- The Image Of Ground Zero : Mediating The Memory Of Terrorism / Marita Sturken -- Tokyo : Between Global Flux And Neonationalism / Shunya Yoshimi. Chris Berry, Soyoung Kim, And Lynn Spigel, Editors. Some Chapters Were Previously Published. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents......Page 6 Introduction: Here, There, and Elsewhere......Page 8 Part I. The Reconfigured Home......Page 30 1 Domesticating Dislocation in a World of “New” Technology......Page 32 2 Avatars and the Visual Culture of Reproduction on the Web......Page 46 3 The Talking Weasel of Doarlish Cashen......Page 62 4 Designing the Smart House: Posthuman Domesticity and Conspicuous Production......Page 84 Part II. Electronic Publics......Page 122 5 New Documentary in China: Public Space, Public Television......Page 124 6 The Undecidable and the Irreversible: Satellite Television in the Algerian Public Arena......Page 146 7 The Voice of Jacob: Radio’s Role in Reviving a Nation......Page 166 8 Violence, Publicity, and Secularism: Hindu–Muslim Riots in Gujarat......Page 186 9 Turkish Satellite Television: Toward the Demystification of Elsewhere......Page 200 Part III. The Mediated City......Page 224 10 The Elsewhere of the London Underground......Page 226 11 The Image at Ground Zero: Mediating the Memory of Terrorism......Page 254 12 Tokyo: Between Global Flux and Neonationalism......Page 274 Contributors......Page 290 A......Page 294 B......Page 295 C......Page 296 D......Page 297 F......Page 298 H......Page 299 I......Page 300 L......Page 301 M......Page 302 N......Page 303 P......Page 304 R......Page 305 S......Page 306 T......Page 307 W......Page 308 Z......Page 309 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-Plesnar, Hebrew U; David Morley, Goldsmiths, U of London; Lisa Nakamura, U of Illinois; Arvind Rajgopal, New York U; Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths, U of London; Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern U; Marita Sturken, New York U; and Shunya Yoshimi, U of Tokyo This work considers how different world populations experience a sense of place through media. The essays examine how media construct the meanings of home, community, work, and nation