ABSTRACT

In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the concept of vertical mediation to explore how audiovisual cultures enact and infer power relations far beyond the screen. Focusing on TV news, airport checkpoints, satellite imagery, and drone media, Parks demonstrates how "coverage" makes vertical space intelligible to global publics in new ways and powerfully reveals what is at stake in controlling it.

chapter |24 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|39 pages

Airing

US Television’s Vertical Turns

chapter 2|37 pages

Searching

Screening Practices at US Airport Security Checkpoints

chapter 3|42 pages

Monitoring

Geospatial Imagery and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

chapter 4|47 pages

Targeting

Mediating US Drone Wars

chapter |15 pages

Epilogue