Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events"The author's capacity to grasp and interpret these [world media] events is astounding, and her ability to provide insights into a world where unbounded information is circling the earth with the speed of light is startling." -- Choice ..". a wide-ranging, quirky and dextrous mix of description, theory and analysis, that documents the perils of the global telecommunications network... " -- Times Literary Supplement ..". this is a stimulating, even moving, book, dense with ideas and with many quotable lines." -- The New Statesman "Wark is one of the most original and interesting cultural critics writing today." -- Lawrence Grossberg McKenzie Wark writes about the experience of everyday life under the impact of increasingly global media vectors. We no longer have roots, we have aerials. We no longer have origins, we have terminals. |
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... media flows pouring off the vectors into everyday life is a byproduct of the globalization of business and business communication . The global media vector ... vector . Hamid Mowlana , a leading authority on development and communication ...
... media event . How then can such a weird global media event be conceptualized ? The event as I will define it in this book is something that unfolds within the movement of images along media vectors . These media vectors connect the site ...
... Media vector , and the Gulf War ) ; in Iraq , 34β36 ( see also Media vector , Arab ) ; as noncommunication , 36-37 , 39 ; and Orientalism , 26β27 ; and time , 17 , 34 , 231n45 Third nature , 93 , 94 , 139 , 154 , 162 , 163 , 164 , 170 ...