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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Now he instructs editors to print reports on the actual state of affairs and leave it
to the readers to decide . What they will decide , perhaps , is that the party
leadership is divided on what to do next , as in fact it is . Nothing reports
confusion better ...
... thousand students demonstrate at Tiananmen ; foreign journalists report it ;
Voice of America radio relays that report ... American versions of the event , it
rings truer than the Chinese press reports , so it becomes a self - fulfilling
prophecy .
During the crisis , more or less accurate reports of demonstrations by sympathetic
journalists had to be allowed in Chinese papers and broadcasts , not least
because to not report such events would seriously compromise the credibility of
the ...
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| Title | Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events Arts and politics of the everyday Indiana University International Studies |
| Authors | McKenzie Wark, Wark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0253363497, 9780253363497 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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