Electronic elsewheres
Subtitle: media, technology, and the experience of social space
By: Chris Berry, Soyoung Kim, and Lynn Spigel, editors.
Contributors: Berry, Chris, 1959-; Kim, Soyoung.; Spigel, Lynn.
Series: Public worlds -- v. 17
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780816647361; 9780816647378
Subjects: Mass media and culture; Mass media -- Social aspects
Description: 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."
Notes: Some chapters were previosly published.

Includes bibliographical references and index.