Locating Emerging Media

Locating Emerging Media focuses 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. . Language: English