Transmedia Geographies
Author | : Kevin Glynn |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2024-12-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781978830097 |
ISBN-13 | : 1978830092 |
Rating | : 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Download or read book Transmedia Geographies written by Kevin Glynn and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders and how those stories reemerge as transmediated events. The authors explore the cultural politics that have developed within this new media environment by moving across the mediated landscapes of the first, third, and fourth (Indigenous people’s) worlds, which are deeply intertwined and interconnected under contemporary conditions of neoliberal globalization and emergent regimes of authoritarian postdemocracy. The book attends both to the platforms and digital networks of the new media environment and to the cultural forms and practices that have constituted television as the dominant medium of communication throughout the second half of the twentieth century. In the new media environment, transmediation works on behalf not only of those corporate megaconglomerates that have become all too familiar to media consumers around the world but also of many communities that have previously been excluded from access to the means of electronic textual production and circulation. For the latter, grassroots transmediation has become an important technique for the production of cultural citizenship.