Locating Emerging Media [Hardcover]

Locating Emerging Mediafocuses on the tensions between the local and global in the design, distribution, and use of emerging media forms, building on scholarship on the cultural geography of new media networks and products and the relationships between the global and the local. Authors consider new media practices, texts, services, software, policies, infrastructures, and design discourses that enrich existing relationships between creative industries and cultures of production, reception, and engagement. This consideration highlights the relationships between global and local perspectives and new media technologies and practices emerging within (and through) the geography and culture of particular places. Areas examined include East Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, South Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Middle East. Through all is the recognition that what is new or emergent around the globe is unique in each locality.

Introduction: Locating Emerging Media Germaine R. Halegoua  Part I: Policy  1. Cultivating Digital Media Capitals: Place, Policy, and Ubiquitous Cities Germaine R. Halegoua  2. State Policy towards Online Communications and the Internet Regulatory Regime in Turkey Bilge Yesil  3. Leapfrogging the Digital Divide: Locating Emerging Media in Remote Australia Tracey Benson  4. The Local and the Global in ICTD Initiatives: Analyzing Implementers and Audiences, a Case Study of Voice of Kibera Melissa Tully  Part II: Industry  5. Game History and the Case of Malzak : Theorizing the Manufacture of Local Product in 1980s New Zealand Melanie Swalwell and Michael Davidson  6. How Comic Books Travel: Brick-and-Mortar Stores, Digital Networks, and Global Flows Derek Johnson  7. Situating Ghanas New Media Industry: LiberalCi