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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|65 pages
Policy
chapter 4|15 pages
The Local and the Global in ICTD Initiatives
part II|58 pages
Industry
chapter 5|21 pages
Game History and the Case of “Malzak”
chapter 6|17 pages
How Comic Books Travel
chapter 7|16 pages
Situating Ghana's New Media Industry
part III|46 pages
Texts
chapter 8|14 pages
Jordanian Queen Rania as Queen Consort of Social Media and Maternal Feminism
part IV|41 pages
Geographies