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In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the concept of vertical mediation to explore how audiovisual cultures enact and infer power relations far beyond the screen. Focusing on TV news, airport checkpoints, satellite imagery, and drone media, Parks demonstrates how "coverage" makes vertical space intelligible to global publics in new ways and powerfully reveals what is at stake in controlling it.
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This volume's contributors offer a new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare. They show how drones generate particular ways of visualizing the spaces and targets of war while acting as tools to exercise state power. Essays include discussions of the legal justifications of extrajudicial killings and how US drone strikes in the Horn of Africa impact life on the ground, as well as a personal narrative of a former drone operator. The contributors also explore drone warfare in relation to sovereignty, governance, and social difference; provide accounts of the relationships between drone technologies and modes of perception and mediation; and theorize drones' relation to biopolitics, robotics, automation, and art. Interdisciplinary and timely, this book extends the critical study of drones while expanding the public discussion of one of our era's most ubiquitous instruments of war.
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"The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effects, and what human beings experience when a network fails. Some contributors explore the physical objects and industrial relations that make up an infrastructure. Others venture into the marginalized communities orphaned from the knowledge economies, technological literacies, and epistemological questions linked to infrastructural formation and use. The wide-ranging insights delineate the oft-ignored contrasts between industrialized and developing regions, rich and poor areas, and urban and rural settings, bringing technological differences into focus. Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Paul Dourish, Sarah Harris, Jennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau, Shannon Mattern, Toby Miller, Lisa Parks, Christian Sandvig, Nicole Starosielski, Jonathan Sterne, and Helga Tawil-Souri"--
Telecommunication systems --- Digital media --- Mass media --- Information superhighway --- Computer networks --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Signal processing --- Processing, Signal --- Information measurement --- Signal theory (Telecommunication) --- Telecommunication traffic --- Teletraffic --- Traffic engineering (Telecommunication) --- Traffic theory (Telecommunication) --- Data highway --- Data superhighway --- Digital highway --- Electronic superhighway --- Global information infrastructure --- I-way (Information superhighway) --- Infobahn --- Infopike --- Information highway --- Information infrastructure --- Infrastructure, Information --- National information infrastructure --- Superhighway, Information --- Information society --- Information technology --- Communication systems --- Communications systems --- Systems, Communication --- Electronic systems --- Social aspects --- Traffic --- E-books --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computer Industry. --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies. --- Signal processing. --- Information superhighway. --- Traffic. --- Social aspects. --- Mass communications --- Computer. Automation
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Critical Care Nursing --- Neoplasms --- Nursing Care --- methods --- nursing --- Public Health Practice --- Public Health Administration --- Health Promotion --- Public Health
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Down to Earth presents the first comprehensive overview of the geopolitical maneuvers, financial investments, technological innovations, and ideological struggles that take place behind the scenes of the satellite industry. Satellite projects that have not received extensive coverage—microsatellites in China, WorldSpace in South Africa, SiriusXM, the failures of USA 193 and Cosmos 954, and Iridium—are explored. This collection takes readers on a voyage through a truly global industry, from the sites where satellites are launched to the corporate clean rooms where they are designed, and along the orbits and paths that satellites traverse. Combining a practical introduction to the mechanics of the satellite industry, a history of how its practices and technologies have evolved, and a sophisticated theoretical analysis of satellite cultures, Down to Earth opens up a new space for global media studies.
Mass media --- Telecommunication --- Artificial satellites --- Artificial satellites in telecommunication --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Electric communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Telecommunications --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- Earth satellites --- Orbiting vehicles --- Satellite vehicles --- Satellites, Artificial --- Space vehicles --- Anti-satellite weapons --- Communication satellites --- Communications-relay satellites --- Communications satellites --- Global satellite communications systems --- Satellite communication systems --- Telecommunication satellites --- Telecommunications satellites --- Telstar satellites --- Social aspects
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