ABSTRACT
Media Space explores the importance of ideas of space and place to understanding the ways in which we experience the media in our everyday lives. Essays from leading international scholars address the kinds of space created by media and the effects that spacial arrangements have on media forms. Case studies focus on a wide variety of subjects and locales, from in-flight entertainment to mobile media such as personal stereos and mobile phones, and from the electronic spaces of the Internet to the shopping mall.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |73 pages
Media Theory/Spatial Theory
chapter |16 pages
The Doubling of Place
Electronic media, time-space arrangements and social relationships
part |97 pages
Work, Leisure and the Spaces In-Between
chapter |12 pages
Media, Bodies and Spaces of Ethnography
Beauty salons in Casablanca, Cairo and Paris
chapter |27 pages
Industrial Geography Lessons
Socio-professional rituals and the borderlands of production culture
part |103 pages
New Media Spaces
chapter |24 pages
Crossing The Media(-N)
Auto-mobility, the transported self and technologies of freedom
chapter |20 pages
Something Spatial in the Air
In-flight entertainment and the topographies of modern air travel
chapter |22 pages
An Ontology of Everyday Control
Space, media flows and ‘smart' living in the absolute present
