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Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 09 November 2004
DOI: 10.1215/9780822386278-015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8627-8
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By Yeidy M. Rivero
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 04 March 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7568-5
... radio broadcasting laws commercial broadcasting public broadcasting media capital ...
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 04 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375685-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7568-5
... the legal and regulatory imaginings of Cuban media. In addition, this chapter draws attention to the development of Havana as an important radio production center for Cuba and Latin America. radio broadcasting laws commercial broadcasting public broadcasting media capital ...
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By Purnima Mankekar
Published: 21 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375838-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7583-8
... as constituted through specific regimes of affect and temporality. Drawing on South Asian and Asian American scholarship, this chapter situates New Delhi and the San Francisco Bay Area as nodes in the transnational circulation of media, capital, commodities, and populations, and foregrounds the role of public...
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By Laura U. Marks
Published: 02 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059127-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5912-7
... This chapter brings the folded cosmos into dialogue with contemporary theories of surveillant information capitalism. Marks suggests an “only moderately paranoid” rejoinder to the darker theorizations of information's grip, especially where information-images are concerned. This relatively...
Published: 21 February 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060369-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6036-9
... of witchcraft, whereas open practices can be done by anybody. Closed practices are often considered inappropriate, immoral, or even impossible for outsiders to perform. This chapter illustrates some key contentions in discourse on social media about closed practices and how they may or may not provide avenues...
Published: 30 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375616-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7561-6
... of language and materiality and outlines how it will be used to illustrate diversity vis-à-vis neoliberal capitalism, biopolitics, and race. It also links this study to seminal ethnographic explorations of media production. Finally, it elaborates on the ethnographic methodologies, field sites, and modes...
Published: 28 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060581-030
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6058-1
... How does one compose unbeginnings? En media res (No new media here!), this chapter operates as a microscript; a closet drama, aerated by cloud chambers of flash fiction and ___nets. Refusing the reinscription of binaries (the columned opposition of “public/private” and “cyborg citizenship...
Published: 12 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059615-012
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5961-5
... and reception in different countries and linguistic landscapes to understand how the marketing campaign reinforced and disrupted linguistic capital across cultural and economic contexts. Through social media and press coverage, Lynch-Kimery examines how English was decentered in various ways, and how...
Published: 21 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374886-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7488-6
... Asian superbloggers became a visible presence in the digital fashion media economy during the second half of the 2000s, but the conditions that facilitated their rise were in place decades earlier. The introduction describes the broader context of the Asian superblogger phenomenon, beginning...
Series: a Camera Obscura Book
Published: 19 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373100-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7310-0
... by a Katrina survivor. The author argues that participatory media extends the predatory cultural logic of disaster capitalism when it enlists disaster victims to supply the unmediated contact with imperiled life (“bare liveness”) that televised catastrophe performs but fails to deliver. The chapter concludes...
Published: 01 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060413-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9417-3
... disruption to examine the nature and extent of Netflix’s impact on Nollywood. It uses interviews and social media posts of filmmakers over two years to assess the significance of the conflicting voices, arguing within a media industries framework that digital disruption introduces gains and losses...
Published: 18 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060734-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6073-4
... of production, its concomitant labor relation, and forms of market circulation that motivated the most radical explorations of form across the twentieth century and into the present. New cultural forms and media are motivated by the historically specific relation between labor and capital, the transformation...
Series: Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture
Published: 05 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059264-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9396-1
... how empire, capitalism, and racialization operate in seemingly apolitical games. video games Asian American digital humanities new media ...
Published: 18 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060734-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6073-4
..., through historical overview, the way in which new forms and media have invisibly depended on shifts in the metabolic of labor, recursively formulated through the figure of the sex worker, who had already, for Marx, been both the real and metaphorical instantiation of the sale of time and presence...
Series: Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture
Published: 05 April 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9396-1
... be reread to reveal how empire, capitalism, and racialization operate in seemingly apolitical games. video games Asian American digital humanities new media Games from Japan carry a double colonial legacy—that of the oppressor in the Asia-Pacific, and that of the oppressed under Western...
Published: 12 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059615-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5961-5
... packaging. Lynch-Kimery tracks the meal’s release and reception in different countries and linguistic landscapes to understand how the marketing campaign reinforced and disrupted linguistic capital across cultural and economic contexts. Through social media and press coverage, Lynch-Kimery examines how...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 29 August 2022
DOI: 10.1215/9781478022978-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2297-8
... Guillermoprieto poses a critical question: In this age of globalization of capital and media, can the notion of “ lo mexicano ” finally be threatened with extinction? The Search for “Lo Mexicano” lo mexicano mexicanidad national character Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ...
Published: 01 April 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9417-3
...Mobile Screen Worlds and the Televisual Turn in Africa The internet is changing the face of screen media across the continent. In this chapter, this change is captured through the lens of a continental television series, MTV Shuga . By exploring how the show adapts its use of the screen...
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By Soma Chaudhuri, Jane Ward
Published: 21 February 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6036-9
... of witchcraft, whereas open practices can be done by anybody. Closed practices are often considered inappropriate, immoral, or even impossible for outsiders to perform. This chapter illustrates some key contentions in discourse on social media about closed practices and how they may or may not provide avenues...