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How do individuals perceive the increasingly open-ended nature of
mediated surveillance? In what ways are mediated surveillance
practices interwoven with identity processes, political struggles,
expression of dissent and the production of social space? One of
the most significant issues in contemporary society is the complex
forms and conflicting meanings surveillance takes. Media,
Surveillance and Identity addresses the need for contextualized
social perspectives within the study of mediated surveillance. The
volume takes account of dominant power structures (such as state
surveillance and commercial surveillance) and social reproduction
as well as political economic considerations, counter-privacy
discourses, and class and gender hegemonies. Some chapters analyse
particular media types, formats or platforms (such as loyalty cards
or location based services), while others account for the composite
dynamics of media ensembles within particular spaces of
surveillance or identity creation (such as consumerism or the
domestic sphere). Through empirically grounded research, the volume
seeks to advance a complex framework of research for future
scrutiny as well as rethinking the very concept of surveillance. In
doing so, it offers a unique contribution to contemporary debates
on the social implications of mediated practices and surveillance
cultures.
Arctic Geopolitics, Media and Power provides a fresh way of looking
at the potential and limitations of regional international
governance in the Arctic region. Far-reaching impacts of climate
change, its wealth of resources and potential for new commercial
activities have placed the Arctic region into the political
limelight. In an era of rapid environmental change, the Arctic
provides a complex and challenging case of geopolitical interplay.
Based on analyses of how actors from within and outside the Arctic
region assert their interests and how such discourses travel in the
media, this book scrutinizes the social and material contexts
within which new imaginaries, spatial constructs and scalar
preferences emerge. It places ground-breaking attention to shifting
media landscapes as a critical component of the social,
environmental and technological change. It also reflects on the
fundamental dilemmas inherent in democratic decision making at a
time when an urgent need for addressing climate change is
challenged by conflicting interests and growing geopolitical
tensions. This book will be of great interest to geography
academics, media and communication studies and students focusing on
policy, climate change and geopolitics, as well as policy-makers
and NGOs working within the environmental sector or with the Arctic
region. The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9780367189822 has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Arctic Geopolitics, Media and Power provides a fresh way of looking
at the potential and limitations of regional international
governance in the Arctic region. Far-reaching impacts of climate
change, its wealth of resources and potential for new commercial
activities have placed the Arctic region into the political
limelight. In an era of rapid environmental change, the Arctic
provides a complex and challenging case of geopolitical interplay.
Based on analyses of how actors from within and outside the Arctic
region assert their interests and how such discourses travel in the
media, this book scrutinizes the social and material contexts
within which new imaginaries, spatial constructs and scalar
preferences emerge. It places ground-breaking attention to shifting
media landscapes as a critical component of the social,
environmental and technological change. It also reflects on the
fundamental dilemmas inherent in democratic decision making at a
time when an urgent need for addressing climate change is
challenged by conflicting interests and growing geopolitical
tensions. This book will be of great interest to geography
academics, media and communication studies and students focusing on
policy, climate change and geopolitics, as well as policy-makers
and NGOs working within the environmental sector or with the Arctic
region. The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9780367189822 has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Online Territories brings key research and writings in the
interdisciplinary study of new media and society together to answer
questions arising from the ways in which online technologies are
currently being envisioned, used, and experienced. The book offers
an up-to-date contextualization of online practices and explores,
from a variety of perspectives, the emergence of new experiences
and routines in relation to - and new conceptions of - social
space. This volume addresses the need for further, research-based
contextualization of preexisting theories related with
globalization, mobility, citizenship and civic participation,
socio-spatial dynamics, network society, and others. Online
territories are traced in relation to three distinct and
interrelated pathways - the everyday; the civic and the public; and
the transnational/translocal - by taking mediation, communicative
practice, and social space as departure points. The book includes
an afterword by David Morley.
The Arctic sea-ice reached record lows in 2007, and again in 2012.
In the international news media, these moments were reflected via
striking images of polar bears, crumbling ice chunks and the use of
more alarmist metaphors about global climate change. Through these
narratives, and despite the periodic disappearance of climate
change from media reports due to issue fatigue, a sharper narrative
of climate change has entered public discourse: a new global
reality where the future is no longer a given. Going beyond media
studies as well as descriptive or highly scientific accounts of the
impacts of climate change in the Arctic, this book explores how
both historical and contemporary mediations, scientific narratives
and satellite technology simultaneously capture and reconstruct
this new reality of the Anthropocene, where human activities shape
the planet. By highlighting the linkages between science, media,
environmental change and geopolitics, the informed contributors to
the volume invite the reader to reflect on what is local and what
is global in today's connected mediatized world.
Combining multidisciplinary perspectives and new research, this
volume goes beyond broad discussions of the impacts of climate
change and reflects on the current and historical mediations and
narratives that are part of creating this new social and scientific
reality.
Continuity and change are the two major trends that mark European
film and media vistas today. While continuity is the result of more
than a century of European film and media tradition, change is
brought about by technological convergence, the evolution of
globalization and commercial markets and of artistic and aesthetic
norms, and the ever-expanding cultural borders of Europe. Bringing
together eighteen research-based analyses on topics as diverse as
Europe itself, Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European
Context presents various accounts of filmic and televisual media,
text and form, mediated politics, media policy, globalization,
diasporic media, multiculturalism and more. The chapters are
grouped into three main sections: Identities, Borders, Industries;
Migration, Space, Transnationality; and Telling Stories: Medium,
Form, Message and Beyond. Employing film studies, critical social
theory and cultural studies and drawing upon technological,
spatial, political economic, sociological and anthropological
approaches, the authors present multidimensional and multi-faceted
depictions of the historical and contemporary factors that have
shaped, and continue to shape, film and media in Europe."Ambitious
in both its intellectual and geographical scope, this volume
provides us with an innovative and original understanding of what
is happening in the new and rapidly changing European cinema scene
- a very welcome intervention in an important cultural
agenda."Kevin Robins, City University, London"Miyase Christensen
and Nezih Erdogan have edited an excellent book on film and media
landscapes in the "new" Europe of the early twenty-first century.
Incorporating eighteen individual chapters in three parts, the book
re-examines what "European" media and cinema means during a period
in which the geographical and cultural boundaries of "Europe" are
still shifting, the media themselves are deeply influenced by the
digital revolution, and audiences for "film" are constantly
re-defining themselves. The book itself offers fresh perceptions
across a range of different fields and should be of interest to all
those fascinated by current trends in both film and media." Melvyn
Stokes, University College London
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