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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Media Infrastructure"”.
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Vibrating the Web: Sonospheric Studies of Media Infrastructure Ecologies
How can the relationship between media infrastructures and the economies of noise foster the development of a sonospheric art practice? Media infrastructures are the material backbone of the Internet. Such sites underpin the digitally hyperconnected world, but as material assemblages are also …
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Internet killed the Michelin star : the motives of narrative and style in food text creation on social media
… texts) have become mainstream content on social media sites and digital streaming sites. While they accomplish some similar goals to their analog counterparts (e.g. in-print cookbooks), like communicating information about the food's preparation or what its consumption would be like, the surplus …
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Crisis Thought
… mobilization of crisis thought by the 24/7 news media and throughout politics in the United States. Working outside of economic and Marxist traditions of crisis studies, this study focuses on the effects of crisis thought by way of a critical, interpretive, and interdisciplinary approach. There …
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Contradictions in the Arab media: The case of Arabsat
In the construction of their media infrastructure, most of the Arab countries are spending millions of dollars on US and Western contracts. Regarded as one of the fastest growing and dynamic markets for media technologies in the world, the region may lack a clear media policy as a guideline to shed …
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Screen Time
… Times Square, architecture is inextricable from mediated representations. The place is dislocated by the screens that envelop its buildings and the other screens, around the world, upon which its image is ceaselessly presented. The neighborhood itself is named after the Times Tower, which was …
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Assessing social media adoption and maturity in small and medium enterprises: case of Saudi Arabia
The proliferation of social media has changed marketing and branding of organisations around the world. Social media has proved to create business value for companies; however, there is a lack of coherent and sequent studies in the field of social media for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in …
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‘We Shift You’: Experimental Infrastructures, Race, Gender, and Unity and Difference in Britain, 1980–97
… thesis is a cultural study of four ‘experimental infrastructures’ which emerged in the context of race ‘coming home’ (Stuart Hall) in postwar Britain. The four infrastructures are: a friendship group of art students in Leeds (1981–84); Bazaar: South Asian Arts Magazine (1987–92); Panchayat archive …
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MEDIA DEVELOPMENT PATHWAYS: A CASE STUDY OF THE MEDIA INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
For nearly 30 years now, media development (or media assistance as it is also called) has been a cornerstone of foreign aid designed to support transitions to (Western) democracy and governance. The impact and the legacy of all the support that has gone to supporting democratic media transitions is …
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¡Subestándar!: Sub-standard small gauge cinema between Mexico and U.S.A. (1923-1960)
… and scholarly discourses that miniaturized media technologies of the modern era are uniformly emancipatory, inclusive towards society, and offer unprecedented avenues against the hegemony of dominant media. I offer the example of the small gauge, amateur and semiprofessional, “sub-standard” …
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PROJECT 02: MEDIA, POWER, AND ECOLOGY AT THE GOOGLE DATA CENTER IN THE DALLES, OREGON
… for research in the humanities. Recent work in media studies engages these concerns by examining the ecologies of media and media infrastructures. The Internet is arguably the most critical media infrastructure. Media studies augments cultural analyses of the Internet by focusing on the …