Media, modernity and technology : the geography of the new /
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| Author / Creator: | Morley, David, 1949- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2007. |
| Description: | x, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6369420 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. Disciplinary dilemmas: canons and orthodoxies
- 1. So-called cultural studies: dead ends and reinvented wheels
- 2. Cultural studies and media studies: contexts, boundaries and politics
- Part II. Methodological matters: interdisciplinary approaches
- 3. Methodological problems and research practices: opening up the 'black box'
- 4. Visions of the real: the ethnographic arts
- Part III. The geography of modernity and the orientation of the future
- 5. Eur Am, modernity, reason and alterity: after the West?
- 6. Beyond global abstraction: regional theory and the spatialisation of history
- Part IV. Domesticity, mediation and the technologies of 'newness'
- 7. Public issues and intimate histories: mediation, domestication and dislocation
- 8. Rhetorics of the technological sublime: the paradoxes of technical rationality
- Part V. Techno-anthropology: icons, totems and fetishes
- 9. Television: not so much a visual medium, more a visible object
- 10. Magical technologies: the new, the shiny and the symbolic
- Part VI. Coda
- 11. Marvels and wonders: modernity, tradition and technology
- Index
