MediaSpace: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age

by Nick Couldry, Anna McCarthy

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134436347
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/23/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Nick Couldry is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Media Rituals: A Critical Approach, Inside Culture and The Place of Media Power: Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age.
Anna McCarthy is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University. She is the author of Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Nick Couldry, Anna McCarthy; Part I Media Theory/Spatial Theory; Chapter 1 The Doubling of Place, Shaun Moores; Chapter 2 Kinetic Screens, Lisa Parks; Chapter 3 Neither Poison Nor Cure, Clive Barnett; Chapter 4 The Attractions of Television, Mimi White; Part II Work, Leisure and the Spaces In-Between; Chapter 5 The Marketable Neighborhood, Arlene Dávila; Chapter 6 Media, Bodies and Spaces of Ethnography, Susan Ossman; Chapter 7 Spaces of Television, Göran Bolin; Chapter 8 Dot.Com Urbanism, Andrew Ross; Chapter 9 Industrial Geography Lessons, John T. Caldwell; Part III New Media Spaces; Chapter 10 The Webcam Subculture and the Digital Enclosure, Mark Andrejevic; Chapter 11 Crossing The Media(-N), James Hay, Jeremy Packer; Chapter 12 Something Spatial in the Air, Nitin Govil; Chapter 13 An Ontology of Everyday Control, Fiona Allon; Chapter 14 ‘To Each their Own Bubble’, Michael Bull;