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The Internet has transformed the social relations that were once
managed by the powers that be. As a rapidly maturing communications
technology, the Internet has brought people together even while it
has reinforced privatism. The desktop computer, the laptop, the
cellular and mobile phone, the Global Positoning System, the
pilotless drone aircraft, video games and Government documents
courtesy of Wikileaks, all are connected on the network of
networks. Together these converged elements of a global
socio-technical system offer wonderful possibilities for human
emancipation, even while those ideas collide with established ideas
of civility and decency. Utilizing a transdisciplinary approach,
Uprising examines the way transgressive knowledge circulates in
places and spaces where communication regulation has been removed.
In doing so, the book offers a new approach to proletarianization.
It is based on the theory that the deregulation of the digital
infrastructure allows transgressive knowledge to be mobilized in
ways that remake political economy. The current moment sees the
Internet opening up questions about social organization, power and
democracy. The unintended consequences that are attached to this
analysis of the Internet are discussed in research about
pornography and jihad. These case studies show how
proletarianization can be used to understand the Internet, culture
and society.
Can rock n' roll and politics mix? Rock Dogs looks at the impact of
government music policies on the Australian music scene, youth
culture, and national identity. In the 1980s to early 1990s, rock
music in Australia became one of the unlikely targets of the
Australian Labor Party's (ALP) cultural policies. Younger ALP
politicians and activists were galvanized to create a series of
unique initiatives, such as Ausmusic and the Victorian Rock
Foundation, which targeted Australian youth through the music
industry. The policies, which used techniques adapted from other
cultural industries like television and film, were diverse and
innovative, but unproven in the music industry. Despite the
optimism fueling these cultural policies, various governmental
inquiries, increased resistance from major studios, and a growing
divide between the needs of the people and the music industry
eventually dampened them. Rock Dogs is a candid, observant study of
the legacy of these cultural policies and the larger debate over
the creation and preservation of a national culture.
In Hollywood's search for cheap, distinctive, and authentic
locations, producers and directors are taking their business to
foreign soil. Only one of the five 2002 Best Picture nominees was
shot in the United States-The Hours, filmed in Hollywood, Florida.
Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of "runaway
productions"-the growing practice of producing American films and
television programs on foreign shores. Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher
have gathered a group of contributors who seek to explain the
phenomenon from historical, political, economic, and cultural
perspectives, using case studies, challenges to contemporary
screen, media, and globalization theories, and analyses of changing
government politics toward cultural industries.
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