Media Space explores the importance of ideas of space and place to understanding the ways in which we experience the media in our everyday lives. Essays from leading international scholars address the kinds of space created by media and the effects that spacial arrangements have on media forms. Case studies focus on a wide variety of subjects and locales, from in-flight entertainment to mobile media such as personal stereos and mobile phones, and from the electronic spaces of the Internet to the shopping mall. Media Space contains both theoretical overviews and a geographically diverse...
Media Space explores the importance of ideas of space and place to understanding the ways in which we experience the media in our everyday lives. Essa...
Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms; and helping to pass the time in workplaces of all kinds. In "Ambient Television" Anna McCarthy explores the significance of this pervasive phenomenon, tracing the forms of conflict, commerce, and community that television generates outside the home. Discussing the roles television has played in different...
Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and store...
Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms; and helping to pass the time in workplaces of all kinds. In "Ambient Television" Anna McCarthy explores the significance of this pervasive phenomenon, tracing the forms of conflict, commerce, and community that television generates outside the home. Discussing the roles television has played in different...
Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and store...
Marks the thirtieth anniversary of "Social Text" and celebrates the journal's legacy. Offering a history of the journal since its inception in 1979, this title explores the elements that have made "Social Text" what it is today: the intellectual impulses that first brought the editorial collective of scholars, artists, and activists together.
Marks the thirtieth anniversary of "Social Text" and celebrates the journal's legacy. Offering a history of the journal since its inception in 1979, t...
