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 re-emerge 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 post-democracy. 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 mega-conglomerates that have become all too familiar to media consumers around the world, but also for 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.
Contents
List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Cultural Politics and the New Media Environment
Part I: Popular Geopolitics and Cultural Citizenship in the Contemporary Media Environment
1. Transmediation, 9/11 and Popular Counterknowledges
2. The Gendered Geopolitics of Post-9/11 TV Drama
Part II: Disaster Events, Participatory Media, and the Geographies of Waiting
3. Decoloniality, Disaster, and the New Media Environment
4. The Transmediation of Disaster Down Under
Part III: Māori Media: Criminalization, “Terrorism,” and the Celebrification of Indigenous Activists
5. Coloniality, Criminalization and the New Media Environment
6. Indigeneity and Celebrity
Part IV: Mediated Struggles for Democratization, Decolonization, and Cultural Citizenship in Central America
7. Authoritarianism and Participatory Cultures
8. Transmediation and New Central American Digital Activisms
Conclusion: Struggles over Modernity and the New Media Environment
Notes
References
Index
Kevin Glynn is an associate professor at Northumbria University in the UK. He is the author of Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television and coauthor of Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes: Authoritarianism and the Struggle for Social Justice and Communications/Media/Geographies.
Julie Cupples is a professor of human geography and cultural studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is sole or joint author or editor of eight books including Development and Decolonization in Latin America, Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes, Communications/Media/Geographies, andUnsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University.
