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... This chapter describes the large-scale cultural forces affecting cable networks from the mid-1900s through the present in order to establish a historical context for the book. It begins with a discussion of how the global telegraph network reflected colonial interests between the 1850s...

..., social networking, and the workplace. Vegas entertainments like csi: The Experience and The Gun Store illustrate how popular culture capitalizes on fear and habituates participants to total visibility in a surveillance society. casino surveillance Surveillance Information Network csi...

... In this essay, Luker examines the 2009 UNESCO declaration that recognized tango as an “intangible cultural heritage of humanity” in order to develop a critical perspective on the cultural politics of musical heritage making within complexly interlocking networks of musical circulation, cultural...

... together ideologies of progress, regional celebrity culture, local LGBT activism, and queer reception circuits in “greater China.” This chapter locates these examples within the festival, scholarly, professional, and audience networks that sustain women’s cinema within Asia and its diasporas...

... This chapter tells the story of a Mayan woman, over the sixteen years the author has known her, who went from being a hamlet schoolteacher and cultural rights activist through increasing involvement in transnational networks—which were like and unlike the ngo connections pushing education...

... and stigmatized groups are differentially targeted as objects of surveillance and harassment in social media and video game culture. Yet policing and penalizing harrassers through legal means tends to work poorly and fails to address underlying issues and motivations for the behavior. This essay describes how...

... networks, a quality of musical aesthetics, an excessive term of affect and identity, and a key metaphor for the incommensurable paradoxes of modern global culture. The essay concludes with an example from the author’s ethnographic research with a day laborer community in Osaka, Japan, whose karaoke song...

... to examine how networks of media theory operate along transnational axes. It offers an account of the attempt to salvage and defend the model of the ideological critique within media theory at a moment when the depoliticization of the public sphere in Japan loomed on the horizon. In so doing, it reopens...