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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... reports confusion better than confused reporting . Noise is a sign of noise , and an efficient vector can distribute noise as the sign of noise far and wide . 29 April . Hewing to the principle of cutting off the enemy's vectors of com ...
... report it ; Voice of America radio relays that report and amplifies it , saying that hundreds of thousands of ... reports , so it becomes a self - fulfilling prophecy . The American disinformation is at least less boring than the ...
... reports of demonstrations by sym- pathetic journalists had to be allowed in Chinese papers and broadcasts , not least because to not report such events would seriously compromise the credi- bility of the press , when foreign sources are ...