ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

Locating Emerging Media

part I|65 pages

Policy

chapter 1|17 pages

Cultivating Digital Media Capitals

Place, Policy, and “Ubiquitous Cities”

chapter 3|14 pages

Leapfrogging the Digital Divide

Locating Emerging Media in Remote Australia

chapter 4|15 pages

The Local and the Global in ICTD Initiatives

Analyzing Implementers and Audiences, a Case Study of Voice of Kibera

part II|58 pages

Industry

chapter 5|21 pages

Game History and the Case of “Malzak”

Theorizing the Manufacture of “Local Product” in 1980s New Zealand

chapter 6|17 pages

How Comic Books Travel

Brick-and-Mortar Stores, Digital Networks, and Global Flows

chapter 7|16 pages

Situating Ghana's New Media Industry

Liberalization and Transnational Entrepreneurship

part III|46 pages

Texts

chapter 8|14 pages

Jordanian Queen Rania as Queen Consort of Social Media and Maternal Feminism

Constructing Fantasies of Sameness

chapter 10|15 pages

Mapping the Mediascape

The Politics of Chinese Software Art

part IV|41 pages

Geographies

chapter 11|18 pages

When Fiji Is Not an Island

Converging Histories of the South Pacific's (New) Media Capital?

chapter 12|19 pages

Affective Belongings across Geographies

Locating YouTube Viewing Practices of Moroccan-Dutch Youth