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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... Gulf region has a long history of integration into the international media vec- tor . At the turn of the century , Lord Curzon described British interests in the Persian Gulf as " commercial , political , strategical and telegraphic ...
... Gulf War ( London : Harper Collins , 1992 ) , p . 154 . 2. Quotes taken from " Child Hostages Shown on TV , " Daily Mirror , Sydney , 24 August 1990 , and " The Smile on the Face of the Tiger , " Sydney Morning Herald , 25 August 1990 ...
... Gulf War ( London : Harper Collins , 1992 ) , p . 381 . 9. Mideast Mirror , quoted in Hamid Mowlana , Danielle Vierling , and Amy Tully , “ A Sampling of Editorial Responses from the Middle Eastern Press on the Persian Gulf Cri- sis ...