ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how these cultural constraints are iterated in various—often considered non-artistic and non-state—forms of media, such as traditional news outlets, advertising campaigns, sporting activity, and digital spaces, such as social media and search engines. The network media often engage in silent censorship, omitting movements that reject the political, social, and cultural claims that defy the general cultural prescriptions of the US political body. E-media constitute an environment that shapes the opportunities for cultural participation and attempts to affect human awarenesses, cultural understandings and sensitivities, and values. The search engine locates a user by IP address; when a user is located in the US political space, he or she is presented with a series of visual and textual iterations of the US cultural myths. Digital media bring new structures of imperial domination. In traditional colonial complexes, identity is often articulated as a concept with (imaginary) historical roots that shape the contemporary cultural action.
