Transmedia Geographies
Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence
Kevin Glynn author Julie Cupples author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Published:13th Dec '24
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Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders and how those stories reemerge as transmediated events.
The authors explore the cultural politics that have developed within this new media environment by moving across the mediated landscapes of the first, third, and fourth (Indigenous people’s) worlds, which are deeply intertwined and interconnected under contemporary conditions of neoliberal globalization and emergent regimes of authoritarian postdemocracy. The book attends both to the platforms and digital networks of the new media environment and to the cultural forms and practices that have constituted television as the dominant medium of communication throughout the second half of the twentieth century. In the new media environment, transmediation works on behalf not only of those corporate megaconglomerates that have become all too familiar to media consumers around the world but also of many communities that have previously been excluded from access to the means of electronic textual production and circulation. For the latter, grassroots transmediation has become an important technique for the production of cultural citizenship.
"Cupples and Glynn have accomplished an eye-opening book for both media scholars and human geographers. Vividly written and empirically rich, it helps us understand not just the general power of transmedia events, but also how the convergence of old and new media empowers new cultures of resistance in decolonizing parts of the world.”
-- André Jansson * author of Rethinking Communication Geographies: Geomedia and the Human Condition *
ISBN: 9781978830073
Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 23mm
Weight: 567g
294 pages