Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space Volume 17

by Soyoung Kim and Lynn Spigel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816647372
• ISBN13: 9780816647378
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"