Global Currents: Media and Technology Now

New Directions in International Studies

by Tasha Oren (editor), Patrice Petro (Editor), Anna Everett (Contributor)

Rhetoric about media technology tends to fall into two extreme unequivocal celebration or blanket condemnation.a This is particularly true in debate over the clash of values when first world media infiltrate third world audiences. Bringing together the best new work on contemporary media practices, technologies, and policies, the essayists in "Global Currents" argue that neither of these extreme views accurately represents the role of media technology today. New ways of thinking about film, television, music, and the internet demonstrate that it is not only media technologies that affect the cultures into which they are introducedOCoit is just as likely that the receiving culture will change the media. Topics covered in the volume include copyright law and surveillance technology, cyber activism in the African Diaspora, transnational monopolies and local television industries, the marketing and consumption ofa OC global music, OCO OC click politicsOCO and the war on Afghanistan, the techno-politics of distance education, artificial intelligence and global legal institutions, and traveling and OC squattingOCO in digital space. Balanced between major theoretical positions and original field research, the selections address the political and cultural meanings that surround and configure new technologies."

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 2, 2004

About the author

Tasha Oren is an Associate Professor at Tufts University, School of Arts and Sciences. Her research focus is media history, technology, industry, theory and contemporary culture.

Education:
B.F.A. Film and Video, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
M.A. Communication Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ph.D Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison