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Place, Power, Media: Mediated Responses to Globalization is a compelling, interdisciplinary exploration of how media practices and communication rituals are connected to larger economic, social, and political processes in a globalizing world. Through a rich variety of media texts, authors examine how daily, mundane, and interpersonal processes help shape 'our' place in the world, a placement that is integrally connected to social relations at the global level. Denoting a sense of geography as well as demarcating diverse social positionings, place is understood as the result of historical and contemporary discourses occurring on a range of scales and within different cultural, aesthetic, and political contexts. The authors argue that the construction, restoration, configuration, and representation of place is an important project at multiple levels; what meanings are derived from it, what meanings are infused, who the key players are, what power struggles are inherent-these issues offer rich areas of study for global media scholars interested in the place-making powers of media.
List of contents
List of Figures - Divya McMillin/Joost de Bruin/Jo Smith: Introduction: Place, Power, Media - Section One: Place Making in the Globalizing City - Linda Jean Kenix: Authenticity and Participation as a Radicalized Tourist Place in Post-earthquake Christchurch - Divya McMillin: Citizen Media and Civic Engagement in Globalizing - Carol-Mei Barker: Shanghai's Migrant Bodies and Global Spaces: Zhao Dayong's Street Life (2006) - Section Two: Indigenous Place Making through Media Production and Performance - Jo Smith: Pluralizing Notions of Place through Maori Food TV - Danica Sterud Miller/Puyallup Nation: Anishinaabe Storytelling and the Federal Narrative in Louise Erdrich's Tracks - Oli Wilson: Revisiting Place and Identity in Indigenous Popular Music: Lokal Stylistic Frameworks in Papua New Guinea - Kimbra L. Smith: 'Not Alone in the World': Global Audiences-as-Actors in the Decolonization Process of a Coastal Ecuadorian Indigenous Community - Section Three: Challenging Representations of Place through Media Criticism - Joanne Clarke Dillman: Encountering Nigeria through Mediated Close Encounters: Amina Lawal, Isioma Daniel, and the Miss WorldPageant of 2002 - Athena Elafros: It's the 'Great White North': Nationalism, Identity and Place in Canadian Hip Hop - Joost de Bruin: A New Zealand Television Soap in Fiji: Out of Time, But Firmly in Place - Kristin Shamas: Media Invisibility and a South Lebanese Village - Contributor Biographies.
