Rethinking Media Coverage : Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror
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| Title: | Rethinking Media Coverage : Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror |
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| Description: | In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the concept of vertical mediation to explore how audiovisual cultures enact and infer power relations far beyond the screen. Focusing on TV news, airport checkpoints, satellite imagery, and drone media, Parks demonstrates how'coverage'makes vertical space intelligible to global publics in new ways and powerfully reveals what is at stake in controlling it. |
| Authors: | Lisa Parks |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Artificial satellites in telecommunication, Television broadcasting of news, Television broadcasting of news--Technological innovations, Mass media and war, Telecommunication--Social aspects |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the concept of vertical mediation to explore how audiovisual cultures enact and infer power relations far beyond the screen. Focusing on TV news, airport checkpoints, satellite imagery, and drone media, Parks demonstrates how'coverage'makes vertical space intelligible to global publics in new ways and powerfully reveals what is at stake in controlling it. |
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| ISBN: | 9780415999816 9780415999823 9781135837402 9781135837426 9781135837433 9780203879641 |
